Episode 15- Circle of Friends with Karla
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Release Date: 03/19/2026
EPISODE 17 - Saying YES! to LIFE with Theresa Bowman
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Theresa Show Notes “Say yes! Start living life now… not when…” Theresa is a passionate, soulful healer sharing joy with others through conversation, yoga, Reiki, power animal retrieval, Peter Hess sound massage, and love. Nurse Jesse & Theresa share how their friendship and connection has helped them both heal. Theresa is a powerful helper/healer who has truly walked the walk, the real deal. She teaches us how to listen to our body and be present, honoring alignment and flow. I hope you can work with Theresa soon or take her very unique yoga class at Bay Area Yoga. If you're not...
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Episode 16 - Healing through Body Work with Tanya Kriesel - Wisdom Tree Wellness
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Healing through Body Work with Tanya Kriesel - Wisdom Tree Wellness Facebook: Tanya weaves together her background in Psychology, Mindfulness, Bodywork and Energy Medicine to support others on their healing journey back to wholeness. It is through her own healing journey of having anxiety, depression and PTSD that led her to study and learn effective ways to heal trauma in the body and energy systems. Tanya is a natural born empath, intuitive and medium. She is a lover of nature; connecting deeply to nature's wisdom and healing energy. She strives to live a simple cyclical...
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Episode 14 - Soul Writing with Aleksandra Krzywicka
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Show Notes For: Soul Writing with Aleksandra Krzywicka with A Starlit Mind - making writing fun and help adults fulfil their dreams. Key Takeaways: · Sometimes demolition is necessary to clean the slate and create the fire to foster re-birth in the soul. · “I needed to be around people who pursue growth.” · A Shamanic Journey lit Aleks life up and broke her 6 year writing block. · Writing is a tool for remembering, healing & integration. ...
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Episode 15- Circle of Friends with Karla
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Karla was a life-saver for me, a mentor, business partner and dear friend. We recount our invisible thread journey and the birth of the Circle of Friends groups. Karla Brooks is a creative spirit who is guided by her need to EXPLORE, CREATE, CONNECT and INSPIRE. Her mission is to help others discover their authentic selves and build community to solve the growing loneliness epidemic. She believes in the power of utilizing co-design principles to guide innovation and engagement initiatives. Karla is a creative spirit and lifelong learner who began her career in graphic design, expanded...
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Episode 13 - When Your Old Life Calls...
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
When your old life calls… I share about the my experiences of being in a "liminal space" between who I was and who I am becoming. Lessons... There is no "ending" to a healing journey. Emotional flashbacks - where sensations within your body or triggers in environment collapse time and we feel like we did back when the truama first occured. So we lose the sense of reality and who we are now. This is accompanied by the stories and beliefs of that time as well (intense shame, despair, hopelessness etc). My triggers still include certain places, people, or spaces. This can even go...
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Episode 12 - Grief: with Erin Hollister, Director for Center for Grieving Children Program (Boys & Girls Club of Fox Valley)
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
I enlisted the help of my new friend, Erin Hollister - Director for Center of Grieving Children Program of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley to help me in continuing to process the grief of the end of my marriage. This was recorded in real time as I processed my ex-husband (of 22 years) entering a new marriage. "I help people find joy, even in their pain." - Erin H. Erin teaches us that... Grief is a natural response to loss it is an emotional/physical/cognitive/spiritual reaction to losing someone/something significant. Grief is not meant to be fixed, only...
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Episode 9 - Frequency, Breathwork and HYFI Meditation with Daniela Garcie Allie
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Daniela is an illustrator and intuitive who is dedicated to igniting creativity & empowering you to create the masterpiece of your life! You can read more about her story here: Books I recommend: Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Needwa Glover Tawwab The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron The Answer is Simple Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit by Sonia Choquette Courses: Taking Action to Release Your Own Distortion (Introduction to HYFI) Services: 1 on 1 Sessions: HYVE Community Trial: Upcoming Mexico Retreat: Use Code:...
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Episode 10 - Solo Stories From Nurse Jesse
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
In this episode, recorded in June of 2025 (you can hear the rosy finches singing midway through), Nurse Jesse candidly shares the journey that she took to conceptualize the Healing for Hearts and Minds podcast and update on her life at this point while engaging with larger universal themes and conecepts. May you be find some inspiration, education and entertainment in this episode as you get to know Nurse Jesse better! · Courage to be an entrepreneur · We teach what we need to hear · ...
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Episode 7 - Spiritual Awakening with Shana (2)
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
Shana Show Notes Theologians may quarrel but the mystics of the world speak the same language. - Meister Eckhart About Shana: Shana Farrell is a transformational change agent with years of experience using her restorative strength to make positive changes for people and organizations. She is a certified life purpose coach, certified transformational life coach, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Certified Spiritual Companion who provides hope and inspiration to those who struggle or suffer; specializing in empowering others to overcome darkness. Shana is an...
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Episode 11 - Aftermath of Burnout…What now?
Healing for Hearts & Minds with Nurse Jesse
"Owning your story and loving yourself through it is the bravest thing you will ever do." -Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection Jesse shares her story of burnout in it's totality; the good, the bad, & the ugly with courage and compassion. TW - suicidal ideation. Expecting a highly senstive person to function in this society is like telling a butterfly to go out in a hail storm. Alexithymia, which is not an inability to feel, but an inability to idenitfy, process, and describe one's own emotions. Individuals with alexithymia struggle to differentiate between physical...
info_outlineKarla was a life-saver for me, a mentor, business partner and dear friend. We recount our invisible thread journey and the birth of the Circle of Friends groups.
Karla Brooks is a creative spirit who is guided by her need to EXPLORE, CREATE, CONNECT and INSPIRE. Her mission is to help others discover their authentic selves and build community to solve the growing loneliness epidemic. She believes in the power of utilizing co-design principles to guide innovation and engagement initiatives. Karla is a creative spirit and lifelong learner who began her career in graphic design, expanded into marketing, co-founded an art licensing business, transitioned into health and wellbeing and is an author, speaker and transformative content creator who travels the world and is part of the sharing economy.
I invite you to join the upcoming It Makes Me Happy! 6 week online group! You will receive the beautiful workbook, maybe some other goodies (I am working on this now). This is a safe, skillfully guided group that will help you connect with your inner world and create deep, rich connections with others focusing on answering the two vital questions, "Who am I & What Makes me Happy?" training ourselves to be happier (without anything externally changing). It Makes Me Happy! offers tools to reconnect with your authentic self and a simple formula to find joy in everyday living.
Key takeaways:
· What is your favorite color?
· Connect In (to your inner self) Connect Up (to your Higher Self/Power) and Connect Out (to one another)
· Who are you? And what makes you happy?
· Take 15 seconds to say “It Makes Me Happy” to solidify happy moments in your brain and re-wire the brain for happiness.
· Start your journey with the It Makes Me Happy! Workbook You can learn more about Karla & her mission here: www.itmakesmehappy.com
In her episode Karla references the following people who have positively influenced her journey:
Susan Anderson Recovery Workbook
Alanon Groups -