#195: Finding Life on the Other Side of PTSD with Shannon Moyer-Szemenyei

In this episode, we talk about limiting beliefs and how they are not the shameful parts of your life and story that you think they are.  I am inviting you into a new way of thinking, it is not the right way, the only way, is my perspective and I want to share it with you.

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) What a limiting belief is, how to recognize and identify them, and 5 steps to overcoming your limiting beliefs.

2) What a superpower is and how a limiting belief is blocking you from shining in your full light with your gifts and superpowers.

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we talk about the energy and experience of International Women’s Day, and the theme of 2024 is Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress. It is an important day because 

women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic, or political. Now do I wish it was celebrated more often and in other ways, the answer is yes. I have a few thoughts to share on this.

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. It is an opportunity to celebrate women’s accomplishments, highlighting the work that still needs to be done and connecting women from all over the world. 

2) I feel like corporations are celebrating this and there’s more room for female entrepreneurs to celebrate each other.  A rising tide does lift all ships. 

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we speak with Speaker and Patient Advocate Kristina Coccoluto. Kristina is a previvor, born with the BRCA1 mutation, leaving her with an 87% lifetime risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer and a 60% risk of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She took her circumstances into her own hands and began her marathon journey as a distraction before having a risk-reducing double mastectomy. Raising funds and awareness for the cancer community for almost a decade, she knew she could serve others on a deeper level, but didn't quite know the direction to take. And last year, as she crossed the Boston finish line, 28 weeks after a complete hysterectomy everything she had endured began to make sense. Kristina is a wife, mom of 3 kiddos, melanoma survivor, and a 3 star Abbot World Major Marathoner and she's not done yet. Kristina is stepping into her purpose by using her voice as a motivational speaker to empower others, advocate for change, and provide hope for those facing their own mortality. 

In this episode, we discuss:
1) Kristina’s story, the choices she had to make concerning her health and her risks, and how it was a gift to have choices as so many prior generations didn’t have the gift of these choices.

2)  How this journey has been so healing for Kristina, how she is learning to see herself differently and realize the impact and the reach her voice and story can have to help others who’ve felt alone and isolated in their journeys.

Connect with Kristina
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinacoccoluto
Email: Kmbramante@gmail.com

Contribute to the Dana Farber Fund supporting Kristina’s upcoming Berlin Marathon:
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching,, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we talk about our thoughts how far away we think something is, and how our thoughts, beliefs, and actions are keeping it further away.

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) Your actions will show up according to and be consistent with how far away you think “it is”.  If you tell yourself that something is far away, your energy, actions, and how you respond will be as if it is far away.  A lot can change quickly when your actions show up and match that.

2) I heard Ed Mylett say that most of us have a depth perception problem.  Because you think it is further away than what it is, you have created patterns, beliefs, thoughts and processes, actions steps, habits, rituals, and ultimately results that keep what you are working towards further away than you think and keep it further away.

OUTSPOKEN Self-belief audio bundle

https://www.marshavanw.com/offers/pApGMinw

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we talk about resiliency and how it is never a fun lesson to learn in the moment. 

“Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” 

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) Resiliency is never fun in the moment and you don’t realize what you are building until later, until you come across another situation, maybe a similar one and you recognize that you are acting or responding differently, and you see that you are building your resiliency muscle.  It is a muscle and much like a muscle in the gym, it requires you to break it down, for it to rebuild during rest. You don’t see your work in the time you did your workout or when you go to the gym, you see it later when your numbers go up or your strength increases.

2) Can you build resiliency without building a hardened heart?  I believe it is entirely possible and it starts with the practice of self-compassion and honouring how far you have come.

OUTSPOKEN Self-belief audio bundle

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we are speaking with Author Kristof Morrow. Kristof is a Navy veteran, author, and award-winning journalist from Texas. Surviving a hellish upbringing of addiction and abuse, he joined the military as a corpsman immediately after high school. After serving for a year, he manifested Tourette's and the severity of his condition incurs great injury to himself, even now. Kristof made several attempts to attend a university and even won the highest awards at two different schools for their annual creative writing contests, but ultimately decided to continue self-teaching. Then, in 2016-2017, he became sober from alcohol after struggling for several years became a journalist by audition, and won awards in photography as well as feature writing from two Texas press associations. Kristof moved to Canada in 2017 to live in British Columbia and began writing his book “The Second Sun” in October 2021 and finished in February of this year. He volunteers tutoring other writers one-on-one, has an elderly cat named Sparkles, and just published a kid's Christmas book called “Liam Earns a Friend!”

In this episode, we discuss:

1) Kristof shares his story, his experience being diagnosed with Tourette’s, and how he is so much more than his symptoms and diagnosis. He also shares the message that your diagnosis is not your fault, yet it is your responsibility how you manage or respond to it. 

2) Kristof’s story of writing, becoming a published author and connecting with his readers to help increase the reach of his book. 

Connect with Kristof
Instagram: https://linktr.ee/kristofmorrow
Email: kristofmorrow@gmail.com

Buy Kristof’s book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Sun-Volumes-II/dp/B0BW2JXHWK/ref=sr_1_5?crid=205QYXOJQMMI&keywords=the+second+sun&qid=1687760810&sprefix=the+second+su%2Caps%2C240&sr=8-5

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching,, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we talk about what your future self would say. Let’s play a fun game, and look at one year from today, February 2025, and what would your future self say to you? How would you look back with pride for how you showed up for yourself, what you said yes and no to, the boundaries you put into place, how you honoured your energy and joy, and how you showed up for yourself? 

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) The idea for this episode came from the sharing of recent episodes, if you don’t take the time to enjoy the steps, actions, and mundane steps in between you will never enjoy the final destination and sometimes as humans, we have to work backward first to see how far we have come instead of always looking forward.

2) Life is teaching us lessons every single day. What am I saying yes to today that I now have new information and wouldn’t say yes to it? You will never reach a bigger goal than you can dream of.  How big can you allow yourself to dream, think, show up as, or even surround yourself with people who can show and inspire you to stretch yourself?  You aren’t that version of yourself YET.

OUTSPOKEN Self-belief audio bundle

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we talk about making choices from the energy of your future self and where you are going and not where you have been.  I am sharing an experience that I witnessed firsthand with clients and I was so damn proud of them and wanted to share it with you.

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) Action trumps fear and consistent action steps will be the building blocks to create the shift in you that is available.

2) Your future dream or vision requires you to show up for yourself, do the uncomfortable thing, choose growth, believe in yourself a little bit more, and know that your actions are serving a bigger purpose

OUTSPOKEN Self-belief audio bundle

https://www.marshavanw.com/offers/pApGMinw

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, we are speaking with Content Creator, Chance Burles. Chance grew up all over southern Alberta Canada. Wanting to be in the military from a young age, he served in the Canadian Forces for 8 years including an 8-month tour in Afghanistan. Upon release from the military, he struggled with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. Over a decade later he is a veteran advocate, Podcaster, Jiujitsu enthusiast, a husband to an amazing woman, and father of two awesome boys.

In this episode, we discuss:

1) After Chance got out of the military, he struggled with PTSD, MDD, and chronic pain while acclimatizing to being a new parent to my 5-month-old son and transitioning into a Veteran life. He had to take his life into my own hands and be the change he wanted to see in his life and in the world.

2) Chance shares his journey through the military, and how he had to come back to a service-based mindset after the military, which led to the start of The Collective, a podcast platform that will have released 1 episode a day for all of 2023.

Connect with Chance
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_collective_ig
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcplburles
Website: https://www.The-collective.ca
Email: chanceburles@gmail.com
YouTube: https://www.YouTube.com/@the_collective_yt

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching,, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, I am resharing an interview with Jess DeMarchis on the Art and Skill of Coaching Podcast.  We dove into the conversation of why NLP, and why the coaching industry requires more standardization, especially when dealing with people’s traumatic stories and experiences.  Jess went deep into my story that led me to NLP, why I felt called to it, and why I knew building a certification program was my next step even when it didn’t make logical sense.

In this episode, we discuss: 

1) That you can do ‘the work’, but if you’re lacking results, you might not be going deep enough. I found myself in a hospital bed before I discovered the modality that would change my life and health. Tune into today’s coach interview to learn about NLP and the power deep coaching can have in both your life and your client’s lives.

Connect with Jess, 

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

The Art & Skill of Coaching Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yz5NDrLQTZ4pa4YL9rvVQ?si=VfhcCY4LS-6zCbbdsmiNwg


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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories. 

Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.