169. Live Your Best Life by Aligning Your Body, Mind and Spirit Through an Holistic Approach with Angel Hiles

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Angel Hiles is Dr. Brad Miller’s guest on Episode 169 of “The Beyond Adversity Podcast.”

Angel is a self-employed relational therapist who is dedicated to assisting you in discovering your actual self so that you can feel a genuine connection, joy, serenity, and love — from the inside out. Her integrated, holistic approach is based on the concept that having an authentic and honest relationship is the foundation for connecting with others.

In this episode, Angel talks about her personal experience dealing with trauma as a child and how it influenced her decision to pursue a career in assisting others with their issues.

She has been through a variety of traumas, but she concentrates on a specific sort of trauma that often goes unnoticed: attachment traumas, relational traumas, and developmental traumas, in which our physical and emotional needs aren’t satisfied as children. We also lack the secure attachment that allows us to experience ourselves and connect with others, which generates a great deal of distress.

Her parents divorced three times during their marriage; therefore, she grew up in a tumultuous environment. While her mother battled depression, her father struggled to maintain a relationship. She saw how her mother’s mental health deteriorated due to it all, and she grew up knowing that her family struggles with mental health and substance misuse.

We may not realize that trauma is affecting our ability to cope and operate in the first place. Maybe we can take a step back and look at where you are in life and ask, “Am I in pain?” Or does my life appear to be out of hand? Some level of awareness is essential. All people experience pain, and it can manifest in a variety of ways. Angel appeared in relationships as well as in emotions.

Faith is a universal quality everyone needs to go through in life, even when the odds are stacked against them. It gave Angel hope that all she had gone through was for a reason and that she wasn’t alone. She met other people who assisted her as a result of this. Have faith in oneself to look for someone who wouldn’t judge her. Everyone’s support system is critical at all times.

 Episode 169 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast serves as a reminder for everyone suffering from any depression, trauma, or childhood experiences that impacted your life as you grow older to always look for the brighter things in life. It speaks about how devastating these negative emotions are and how it sets limiting beliefs on individuals who choose to be on the safe side rather than to take risks.

“The Beyond Adversity Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is published weekly with the mission of helping people “Grow Through What They Go Through” as they navigate adversity and discover their promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose. 

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Transcript
Dr. Brad Miller:

Welcome to Beyond adversity Angel Hiles.

Angel Hiles:

Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Well, it's awesome to have you with us here today

Dr. Brad Miller:

on beyond adversity Angel,

Dr. Brad Miller:

you have a have a, your clinical counselor

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where you are helpful to people,

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children and adults who have had their own traumas and situations

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to go through in life. I have a feeling, though,

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that some of this stems from your own experiences

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with some own your own challenges,

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or perhaps traumas in your life.

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Can you maybe tell us a little bit about some situation in your life

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that was traumatic or dramatic?

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And was a part of your process of leading you to the life of a clinical health counselor?

Angel Hiles:

Sure, that's a great question.

Angel Hiles:

I would definitely, you are correct. On the background.

Angel Hiles:

So my traumas started in childhood.

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So there's several different traumas.

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The main one I want to talk about though,

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is more of ones that go beneath the radar,

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which are more attachment traumas,

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and relational traumas, and developmental traumas,

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where our needs aren't met as children or our emotional needs.

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And we don't have that secure attachment

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where we feel safe to experience ourselves and to connect with others,

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which causes a lot of distress.

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So I was raised in a home

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where my parents ended up divorcing each other three times.

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And my mom struggled with depression,

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my dad, he, he struggles in relationships.

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And so he went on to marry two more times after my mom.

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But my mom's mental health and self esteem was very poor growing up,

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oftentimes, she shared information

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that was not age appropriate for me at that time.

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So that caused a lot of distress in my life.

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Dad was pretty rigid, also growing up.

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So mom over compensated doubt,

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could be very rigid, he was aggressive with my brother a lot.

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And my dad, was an alcoholic,

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my dad never drank, but he had like the behaviors of somebody that would be an alcoholic.

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And so as I grew up, I realized that there was mental health

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and substance use, you know, on both sides of my family,

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and each parent did the best they could

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with how they were raised. And my dad has a lot of traumas,

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which I don't know if he knows, but he, from what I know

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about his childhood that significantly impacted him.

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And my mom, I can't, she has not shared anything with me that I know about her childhood.

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But nonetheless, I know what my childhood was like in that environment.

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So that was a lot of uncertainty,

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lots of change, lots of you know,

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not feeling okay to express myself.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Their behavior left clues, and especially with your education,

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and so on, you've kind of pieced it together

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a little bit of your family dynamics, which impacted you is.

Angel Hiles:

and then in addition to all of that,

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I did experience childhood sexual trauma.

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So I had complex trauma growing up

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Other people, when that happens to them,

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they get stuck, they stay there,

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or they descend into similar patterns,

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or destructive patterns themselves and adulthood, and so on

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and have made some choices, some very deliberate choices,

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to take some actions to not follow those patterns that you grew up in.

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Tell us a little bit about some of the actions that you took,

Angel Hiles:

You know, sometimes we're not aware that trauma

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is negatively impacting our ability to cope and function

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the first place we can maybe just pause and take a look

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to see where in my life Am I experiencing pain?

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Or does my life look out of control where we,

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there has to be some kind of awareness, we're experiencing pain, right?

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And it could be in different areas. Mine showed up in relationships,

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and of course, in emotions, but it was definitely my relational

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and emotional functioning is that faith,

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for one is what helped me like believing

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that this was going to be used for a bigger purpose.

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Right, and that I was not alone. So in doing that,

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I met other people that helped me Have faith in myself

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to seek out that didn't judge.

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So a support system is always very important for one.

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Faith, I believe, just so, you know, creating safety is, is number one.

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And, you know, when a person makes the first step,

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just to say, I think I need to change or something needs to change,

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that in itself can create more stress, right?

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And fear because this is, whatever the environment is,

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that's what the person is used to.

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So to even think about something different, is scary.

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So we, we truly want to just work on how to feel safe in our bodies.

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And trust that even though this is terrifying,

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and to feel emotions, that we have not felt that have got pushed away,

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that takes courage, and then skills

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to know how to help yourself soothe while you're working through it.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Well, you mentioned it a little bit there already

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and about having a faith element has been helpful to you.

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And, and I know that's a part of what you teach others.

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But tell me a little bit about your experience

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in terms of that in terms of how connection to a higher power,

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or something greater than yourself,

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or spiritual practices may play a part in helping someone

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to cope with and deal with the adversity of trauma,

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and to get better to come up to a better place.

Angel Hiles:

Face element, you know, it just brings hope, right?

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The message of love and acceptance, and encouragement.

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And hope. Truly, it's, I'm not alone in this,

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there's something bigger than me out there.

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And just in that action of letting go of control,

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the person can feel instant relief,

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when that is a conscious decision of I am ready to let this go.

Dr. Brad Miller:

And so that gives one sense of I believe

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when you have that connection to something greater yourself,

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you said to hope that also brings a little calmness,

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a little peace in a when trauma by its nature,

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is a disturbing upsetting experience, and is too disruptive.

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Having a faith basis gives us a sense of direction.

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And that and I believe that's a factor here as well. You know,

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part of what I teach is what I'm about

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is helping to overcome adversity and you just cannot be so self absorbed.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Because that just leads you to spiral into some directions

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that are not, you know, not gonna be helpful.

Angel Hiles:

Yes, and to build on that. It's also creating trust,

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trusting a god or a higher power of some sort

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against something bigger than yourself.

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And in doing that, that is helping create that safety.

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And you're right, absolutely have a direction, right.

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But when trauma happens, our sense of security or

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sense of safety, you know, our ability to trust is fractured.

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So that's a great starting place because it is learning how to repair that.

Dr. Brad Miller:

you've met, you mentioned trust, there are a couple of times,

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and Angel and that is such an important thing.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Because you trust in the higher power,

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that's one thing, but it's also about repairing or rebuilding trust with other people.

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And sometimes that's hard to do

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if Trust has been broken by some traumatic experience.

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And you mentioned some pretty, you know, pretty awful stuff there that you went through,

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let's talk about the importance of healthy relationships

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or relationships that are helpful and what I mean by helpful,

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healthy can be you know, it could be a romantic relationship

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or with your kids or with your friends or whatever.

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A help full relationship may be an accountability

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or a tough love or any number of things like that.

Dr. Brad Miller:

But that's what you taught me a little bit about the importance

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and the power of productive relationships and

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helping people to deal with with trauma.

Angel Hiles:

So wonderful question because connection is so important.

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helpful, healthy relationships, genuine

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we're you know we are designed to be connected,

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you're created to be in community with one another.

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And without that we experienced extreme loneliness

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for psychological wellness, right?

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And relational when we are connected and being able to be vulnerable with one another

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encouraging supportive. We then are learning how to experience trust and safety

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and so that helps our mental health, our emotional health.

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And now we're starting to, you know, have a fullness

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and getting back to wholeness.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Do you have any examples maybe in your personal life

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or in folks that you've worked with where you've seen been a part of a healing

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part of the healing for people to get through trauma

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and come through different things,

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tell us about some experiences you may have had with productive and helpful people.

Angel Hiles:

So definitely family, that can be a tricky one.

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So if family can be supportive and accepting,

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we really want to avoid judgment, right?

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Even if we don't understand, we want to use encouraging loving words.

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And sometimes we don't even have to say anything,

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we just need to be there and identify the feelings that they may be experiencing,

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and give them that hope, like, I'm here with you,

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you're going to get better and a family can do that, that's great.

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But sometimes people are in families that aren't healthy or helpful.

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And so creating healthy boundaries with that

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is going to be helpful to the individual to let that go,

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to love them as they are and where they are,

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but to nurture themselves, while they create that boundary,

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and then look for that support in their friendships.

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Or maybe that is going to be in a support group,

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that part yours mentioned their Angel

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about being non judgmental, and that's hard to do sometimes,

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especially family relationships, because you know,

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people are kind of used to doing that.

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And when somebody has a position of power, you know,

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like a, a transition happens when a between a parent and a child

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does transition, when that child grows up,

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my three children are all adults, and I have grandchildren.

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And so then you have a transition,

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you still have to trust, the trust is still important.

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But the judgmental part has to try to avoid that if at all can

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in order to maintain that the trust and to help to build you through those things.

Dr. Brad Miller:

That's you just rather have some great insights there.

Dr. Brad Miller:

And I appreciate what you're what you're saying there.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Let's talk about the let's talk about the cognitive for a minute.

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What I mean by that is, what do we have to implement

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and think and do in order to deal with adversity in life,

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trauma, and so on. And I'm thinking about habits,

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practices, processes, routines, things of this nature,

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is there anything that you do and this nature that is helpful to you,

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or any things that you teach or help lead your your clients in

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about habits or processes or practices that you may have to help people.

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more and more people are learning about trauma

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and how it lives in the body.

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So the first step is to be more focused on releasing the trauma out of the body.

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So getting the mind body connection.

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So you can do that by I use a mindfulness practice called the wheel of awareness,

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where it walks a person through different segments of attention.

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So the first segment, and so you imagine,

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so it's a wheel of awareness. So the middle is the hub of awareness

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of the experience of knowing, and you have a spoke that goes out to the rim.

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And that is where the knowns are.

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So the first ram goes out in the first segment is the five senses, right?

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So we bring awareness to what is outside of us.

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Then the second segment,

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we ask them to focus their awareness on their internal experience.

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Then the third segment is their mental activities.

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So that's thoughts, memories, hopes,

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3dreams, ideas, anything

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we're just focusing on bringing their awareness to what flows through their mind,

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what's there, what's not there.

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And then also, the last segment will be the inter connectedness.

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So it just bringing awareness to perhaps the space in between two people

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or just their connection to nature, and just feeling the connectedness.

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So that really helps bring them back into their,

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into the present moment and into their bodies.

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how do you help people that you work with,

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for instance, to begin to identify and connect up

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.with the various aspects of the model that you described

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and other modalities that you have?

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Do you have exercises Do you have,

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I don't know role playing or what what do you do to help people

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to come to get an awareness of the processes

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that you're finding helpful to people?

Angel Hiles:

so when they come in

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I walk them through that, you know,

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I guide them through that exercise and a breathing or grounding.

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So that's always first and foremost.

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And really building the relationship,

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creating safety, providing choice so they can exercise, you know, autonomy

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and something that makes them feel safe that they're in control.

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So that part can take a while until they're feeling safe.

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You know, it's not really let's just dive in

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and start talking about your traumas.

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And a lot of the time some people with

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that are body based or somatic experiencing, you know, and they just focus on what the body's feeling.

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So I integrate all of that. So it's building up their coping skills,

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their ability to recognize when they're in the stress response, right,

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because that's where trauma lives, right in our nervous system.

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And so when they're activated,

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they need the goal is to bring awareness to that.

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So with that Mind, Body practice,

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it gives them more of that ability to recognize

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when they're in that state, and then how to deactivate it.

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So when they're back in a calmer state.

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And, now you're telling your body

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that you're safe in this present moment,

Dr. Brad Miller:

but it sounds like it's important

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to make other people get through adversity

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is to understand you're going to have ups and downs and

Angel Hiles:

so it's essentially relational. Right?

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I consider myself a relational trauma therapist.

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So you know, through the relationship

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that helps co regulate, calm the nervous system,

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and then we can start, you know,

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looking at things and exploring what they're telling themselves

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and how to create a new narrative.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Well, part of the word

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part of the nature of the word trauma itself

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means you know, injury, you know, it means something's broken,

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you know, trauma centers, just another medical side of things,

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deal with people with whatever you know, car crashes

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or broken bones or any number of trauma to the body

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and what we're talking about here as trauma to your emotions

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into your relationships into your psychological health

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and mental health and it's hard to heal hard to get through that

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unless you calm down a little bit, you have to do that

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and that that's a great thing.

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Tell us about Angel about some situation or person or group

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that that you've seen a transformation

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or transition from, you know, to get through adversity

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really means to not stay stuck

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and that trauma or bad, bad place to get through to a better place.

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That place is peaceful, more helpful with purpose.

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Can you just give us an example

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you don't obviously don't give names like that,

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but just to a person or situation

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would you've seen something really cool happened,

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what transformation is taking place.

Angel Hiles:

So a couple of clients come to mind,

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but another couple does too.

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So all in which they had trouble with relationships, right?

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And feeling safe in their bodies,

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lots of anxiety, lots of patterns of choosing the same unhealthy partner

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over and over again, and and having trouble separating from that.

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So anxiety was very present self

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to self deprecating thoughts, you know, just very critical of themselves.

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And so the power of boundaries,

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I would say, for both females,

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and they were both in their, you know, early 20s

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so they started asking themselves right

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there's they started the quest of getting to know themselves

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because in addition to trauma, you know,

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the things we're talking about here is it's a separation for himself.

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Lots of times people don't know who they are, right?

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and they're feeling a lot of things that aren't truly there's

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also and that's a whole another topic

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but you know, the trauma can really distort our emotions,

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our views everything. So when they are paying attention to them,

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and asking themselves what do I like,

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What don't I like, you know, what does this person bring to my life

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rather than Am I good enough You know,

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so they they've started shifting their focus

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to what they started making different choices, right?

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And then they played with boundaries and saying,

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No, you know, when somebody expected them

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to always say yes, or you know,

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they started sharing their actual thoughts and feelings

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rather than not, you know, that avoidant behavior

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that can show up in you know, people pleasing tendencies

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where I don't want to rock the boat,

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so I'm just going to do this but then I'm going to be angry that I did it

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and resentful because I'm only doing it

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to please you kind of, so

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when they start honoring their thoughts and feelings,

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then they start feeling more confident

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and feeling better and anxiety goes down,

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the anger goes down.

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transition that can take place with people

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when they do transition to seeing their value

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based on an out to hear and maybe a new meaning

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from outside forces, whether it's their family

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of origin or a partner, you mentioned about choosing, you know,

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you know, the same type of partner and this type of thing,

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when their values shift to their have their own,

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you know, self worth, that there are a child of God,

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they are a value in and of themselves.

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And then they can even enhance that through healthy relationships,

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for instance, but not be dependent

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or codependent on anything else,

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then that's a, that's a really cool thing to see when that happens and

Angel Hiles:

it's a beautiful thing,

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when they make their connections within themselves,

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and when they start feeling their worth

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and believing in their worth.

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And I'm really glad you use those words,

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because that's exactly right.

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And I do teach that also of self worth, right,

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self compassion, and nothing separates them

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from their self worth, right,

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it doesn't matter how many negative behaviors

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or mistakes one has made, you can still turn from that.

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And it doesn't mean you're bad person.

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And I think, you know, when people engage in behaviors

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that aren't effective and get helpful to get needs met.

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And then quite often those behaviors

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lead to more, you know, negative feelings,

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guilt and shame, and then reinforces perhaps the negative beliefs

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that I'm unlovable or, you know, I'm worthy, or

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just to kind of take our conversation full circle,

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when you're a part of the process

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of being helpful for people to find their self worth

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and their value and to not be dependent or independent

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or codependent on others that kind of kind of takes you back

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that helps you then to process

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and deal with some of the things that you had to deal with

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growing up and so on some of the decisions that you made

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and help you to have you affirmation of your own

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of your own self. And I think ultimately, that's what a lot of us want.

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A lot of folks are just kind of lonely or kind of disconnected.

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And in a tough world. And, you know,

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certainly last couple of years with COVID.

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It's been more isolated and things like that.

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And folks need to have a process

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to deal with the trauma and the drama in their life.

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And you're in you're providing that.

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So I just commend you on that.

Dr. Brad Miller:

So If folks want to find out more about you, Angel,

Dr. Brad Miller:

how can folks be connected with you?

Angel Hiles:

sure, they can check out my website at angelhiles.com,

Angel Hiles:

and so I do provide counseling and coaching services.

Angel Hiles:

And I do have lots of great things in the works.

Angel Hiles:

I too, am working on a book

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and I'm working on trainings and courses

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and live events because I just love teaching

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and encouraging people, modalities to help them

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release their trauma stored in their bodies

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and to connect with each other.

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Because life is so short,

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and it's meant to be lived peacefully,

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in connection with one another and have fun. Y

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ou can have fun, there's not enough fun,

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there's so many distractions

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and hustle and bustle.

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And really it's encouraging people to slow down

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and to be present and to enjoy what is

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rather than what we don't have

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or getting caught up in all these external factors.

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And you know, start moving the body more,

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start your painting, creating you know,

Angel Hiles:

all these playful things that we forget

Angel Hiles:

that we once were as children right

Angel Hiles:

and the innocence and we lose that when we grow

Angel Hiles:

and get you know bogged down by other people's beliefs

Angel Hiles:

or maybe we've absorbed other people's energies

Angel Hiles:

and beliefs, right like so that we lost our joy.

Angel Hiles:

So I just want to encourage people to be themselves

Angel Hiles:

and let the light in and to do more fun things

Angel Hiles:

and things that help them feel happy and true to themselves.

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