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99. If You Don't Own It, It Owns You | Marsha Vanwynsberghe

Release Date: 10/11/2023

130. What's the STORY You Tell Yourself | Ashmeeta Rama Madhav

The Beautiful Side of Grief

How are you parenting yourself in your grief? Are you giving yourself the same advice you would give your child? Sometimes we get so mired in our experience we can forget to take a step back to see the big picture. In this final episode of Season 6, I speak with Ashmeeta Rama, a resilience and grief support advocate, expert, author, and founder of the Growth Story Hub. Ashmeeta shares her profound journey through intense grief, having faced multiple losses including miscarriages, rejection, and the loss of her parents and husband. She discusses how experiences and self-talk shape our...

129. BREAKING FREE: Overcoming Anxiety, Procrastination, and Perfectionism | Daniel Packard

The Beautiful Side of Grief

In addition to grief, do you experience anxiety, fear, depression, procrastination, perfectionism, or any number of other conditions that hold you back from being able to live the life you want? Have you spent more more money than you care to recall on doctor's visits, therapists, books, apps, healing modalities, to maybe feel a little better though still essentially in the same place? Do you have HOPE within YOU that there is a way to get through what you are experiencing? If you answered 'yes' to any of the above, then you need to take a listen to this episode! It's likely to change...

128. Taylor's Gift: More than ORGAN DONATION | Tara Storch

The Beautiful Side of Grief

This is a heartwarming and powerful episode. Making the decision to donate your child's organs must have to be one of the toughest decisions any parent would have to make. Yet, it can also yield incredible rewards. Tara shares her poignant story of navigating the loss of her 13-year-old daughter, Taylor, after a tragic skiing accident. Tara and her husband Todd made the life-changing decision to donate Taylor's organs, leading to the creation of the Taylor's Gift Foundation to promote organ donation and provide grief support for donor families. Through her narrative, Tara emphasizes the...

127. CHAOS! Overcoming the Overwhelm Today | Noah Asher

The Beautiful Side of Grief

My guest on The Beautiful Side of Grief in this episode is helping people overcome the hurt and overwhelm that comes from the chaos happening in their lives... For some, it's sickness. For others, it's incarceration. Or the loss of a loved one. In fact, it's one of those lists that is endless. Noah Asher is Helping People Find Purpose Within Their Pain and Their Past through the 3 H's - Hope, Help, Humor. He is the owner of The Chaos Movement where they help authors market their books so they can share their message and be heard. Noah has written and not...

126. The Power of Pebbles & ANGELS | Patti DiMiceli

The Beautiful Side of Grief

Can you imagine how you would cope if your only child KNEW they were going to die, and you were only 27? On The Beautiful Side of Grief today I get to speak to Amber's incredible mum, Patti DiMiceli who went through this with Amber at the tender age of 41/2. Amber was not afraid. She even picked out the clothes she wanted to wear to Heaven The story of how Patti and Amber prepared for this event - which she describes it as a Miracle, will bring tears to your eyes - so make sure you have some tissues handy before listening! How Patti viewed this event is also profound - it is one that...

125. FREEING MYSELF from a Lifetime with Narcissists | Dana Diaz

The Beautiful Side of Grief

In this episode we explore the grief related to abuse - and more specifically narcissistic abuse. If you have a close relationship with your family - think for a moment what that relationship would look like if they set you for a lifetime of abuse as you were growing up, and then into your adulthood. Instead of giving you the love and support you deserved, they chose to cover their own tracks from possible exposure, by making you out to be the bad guy and supporting your abusive partner instead. Truly, It's enough to send anyone crazy! Having the courage to stand up for yourself and speak your...

124. Believing in the UNBELIEVABLE | Candace Silvers

The Beautiful Side of Grief

Do you believe in the unbelievable? That you have within you, the ability to heal yourself of anything? And not just yourself, but your family too? That you can get to use the term NED - No Evidence of Disease* - such a cool term! It almost seems unbelievable until you listen to Candace who has seen life differently from a very young age. This led her into energy healing at a time it was still in the closet. Since those early days she has become a World Renowned Healer, creating the Silvers Healing ModalityTM and being aTeacher of that, as well as being a Human Behavioral Expert...

123. My Life was NEVER the same | Sydney Decker

The Beautiful Side of Grief

Have you been through something so life-altering that your passion is to now live as authentic & true to yourself as possible? If so, you are going to love this week's guest, Sydney Decker. Sydney had been experiencing depression, anxiety, agoraphobia and also turbulent thoughts similar to her dad, well before he tragically took his own when she was just 20 years old. It was this event that became the catalyst for unbelievable and heart-warming change in her life. Yet, it wasn't an easy path... Sydney, like all of us had to first come to terms with her shadow-self - the parts we like to...

122. From PSYCH Unit to KimbleFit | John Kimble

The Beautiful Side of Grief

Today I am talking to a young guy, John Kimble, who really ventured on the wrong side of life. He wanted to be a gangsta, he had no remorse around the things he did, he robbed houses, sold drugs, had addictions, had attempted suicide a couple of times, had multiple felonies and eventually ended up in a psych ward diagnosed as a sociopath. That's some heavy stuff to go through. Yet, he makes no excuses. He has turned that all around to now having his own fitness centre KimbleFit - and now helps others of all ages find the life they want - through the same means he helped himself. This is...

121. Ministering to Your OWN Grief | Rev. Jocelyn Jones

The Beautiful Side of Grief

Sometimes we can just be too close to a situation. We don't want to see what is right in front of us. This was true for Rev. Jocelyn when she was facing her beloved father's battle with Alzheimer's. She initially didn't want to see her strong, capable, and loving dad was having issues with memory loss right before her eyes. When she did face it, however, she decided that she was going to her best, along with her brother, to find the happy moments and memories in this journey, as well as supporting their mum, who was his primary caregiver. This is a great conversation about being human,...

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Parenting - best job in the world, right?

Not if you lose a precious child in unimaginable circumstances.

Not if you are a parent having to hide the shame, guilt and embarrassment of the choices of your children make.

When her young teen boys found themselves caught up in substance abuse, Marsha Vanwynsberghe desperately sought a solution to help them. It was a dark, hidden world of masks, shame, guilt and hidden voices. Marsha decided to speak up. In doing so, she discovered that by freeing herself she freed her boys. As she confronted the difficult stuff she found her own story, and the courage to help others find and share their stories. As a precursor, Marsha also takes us on a journey of child loss in unimaginable circumstances and the impacts of that, on herself, her husband and their boys.

This is a powerful episode full of hope. Full of courage. Full of information to help you rebuild your life to be able to fully find the light within. Our lives are full of mistakes. It's taking ownership of them that makes the difference.

Marsha's Bio

Years ago, in the midst of dealing with teen substance abuse, I lost my voice, my drive, and shame and judgment ruled my life. I was consumed with trying to fix, manage and control others. When I started to share my story on small stages, online, on podcasts, I could have never predicted that I would find my soul's purpose. I learned that I wasn't alone in my pain, and realized that the reasons we tend to feel alone is because we don't like to talk about the difficult things/parts/and stories in our lives. It became a personal mission to share my vulnerable story more openly. I wrote in 3 collaborative books, spoke on stages, launched my podcast, Own Your Choices Own Your Life, and released my bestselling solo book, When She Stopped Asking Why. Since then, I have been published 7 xs, launched a second podcast, created a brand new business from scratch during a pandemic, recovered from full back surgery, and am more passionate than ever that our stories are meant to be shared to serve, support and impact others. I am now an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and have created a certification to support people in using NLP techniques to heal from their stories, craft their talk from stage, from a podcast, write their book, or grow their business. In addition, I see creating a publishing house to support people in sharing their stories, supporting authors and becoming published authors. Through these tools, NLP certifications, programs, coaching and two podcasts, I will continue to teach the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Our Choices in our own life. I empower men and women how to own and stand on their stories, be conscious leaders and build profitable platform businesses that create massive impact.

In this episode, Marsha shares the following:

[00:01:14] Fur babies

[00:02:54] Intuitively knowing to get a dog

[00:04:50] Marsha's background

[00:07:10] The loss of Izzy

[00:10:05] Findiing a mass

[00:11:12] What the next six years looked like

[00:13:27] How the pregnancy saved her life

[00:14:51] The impact of chronic illess on the family

[00:16:12] How people view the loss of a child pre full-term

[00:18:45] Viewing miscarriages from the spouse's perspective

[00:21:18] When things go awry that the fighter-fixer can't fix

[00:24:07] Not your problem to solve

[00:25:08] Finding a parent group that fit and the 100,000 mom fb group

[00:26:18] Healing to share her journey

[00:30:12] Not being in control and taking responsibility

[00:32:23] Understanding change doesn't come from a space of blame

[00:34:44] You don't get to pick and choose their behaviours

[00:35:00] Taking care of self changed how she responded which changed what happened

[00:38:44] Life with no regrets and who owns the problem

[00:39:42] Leading yourself

[00:41:55] Healing and sharing her story

[00:46:24] Letting the masks fall away

[00:47:10] Advice for others wanting to share their story

[00:49:00] If you don't own the story it owns you

... and so much more!

Quote:

"I learned how to take care of myself, which changed how I was responding to what was happening, which started to change what was happening." ~ Marsha Vanwynsberghe

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Website: https://www.marshavanw.com/

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