Sunshine Grace is an Austin-based public speaker, filmmaker, and clairaudient spiritual medium whose work explores the intersection of mental health and contemporary spiritual awakenings. Her path was shaped by profound non-ordinary experiences with psychedelics, which led her to advocate for greater understanding and normalization of spiritual emergencies, including voice hearing, shamanic-style awakenings, and psychic experiences.

Her work emphasizes trauma-informed healing practices such as meditation, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Through speaking, film, and writing, Sunshine promotes religious tolerance, compassion, and deeper conversations around experiences that are often misunderstood or stigmatized.

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• Betting on Love About Page
• Betting on Love Homepage
• Instagram
• Youtube
• Emma Bragdon

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Dr. Hindie M. Klein is a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst who serves as Senior Clinical Consultant at OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services. She is the Editor of Voices of Strength and was Clinical Project Manager of the acclaimed film Rising From Divorce. Formerly Director of Tikvah, OHEL’s licensed outpatient mental health clinic, Dr. Klein holds a postdoctoral degree from NYU and runs a private practice for adolescents, adults, and couples. She also offers clinical supervision and integrates Sensory Motor Psychotherapy into her work.

Dr. Klein serves on multiple advisory boards, including Amudim, Nefesh, and COJO Flatbush, and is on the Executive Committee of the United Task Force. A frequent speaker and writer on trauma, attachment, postpartum depression, divorce, and countertransference, Dr. Klein has devoted nearly 40 years to advancing mental health in the Jewish community.

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Jarrod Hoffman, LPC-MHSP, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider who works with teens and adults experiencing ongoing challenges with depression and anxiety. His path to becoming a therapist was shaped by his own experiences with grief, anxiety, depression, addiction, job loss, purposelessness, and isolation, as well as finding healing through counseling. 

Jarrod has worked more than 10,000 hours with children and families across settings including churches, universities, prison contracts, and schools. His training includes Integrated Behavioral Health, the Memphis Opioid Paraprofessional Training Program, and Play Therapy.  

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• Jarrod Hoffman's Website
• About Jarrod Hoffman
• Jarrod Hoffman on LinkedIn
• Does My Teen Need Therapy Quiz

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Romy Limenes is a trauma-informed coach, breathwork facilitator, and author of Broken to Breathful. With more than two decades of experience as a registered nurse, along with her lived experience as a mother and survivor, her work explores nervous system healing, embodiment, and self-connection. 

Romy supports women navigating hardship and identity disruption through breathwork, grounding practices, workshops, and coaching. Her work is rooted in safety, authenticity, embodiment, and helping people develop a more sustainable relationship with themselves. (Breathworksimple)

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• Romy Limenes' Website
• About Romy Limenes
• Romy Limenes' Book, Broken to Breathful

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Ruth Wilkey is the author of Sociable Bunny, a children’s book and character-based brand that focuses on helping children develop emotional health, friendship skills, kindness, trust, and positive character traits through stories, activities, songs, and animated-style bunny characters.

Ruth says the idea emerged during a healing journey after depression and unresolved childhood trauma, while attending a writing school in Hawaii. She describes The Sociable Bunny as an expression of bringing “light and love to the hearts of children.”

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• Sociable Bunny Website
• Ruth Wilkey LinkedIn
• Sociable Bunny Instagram

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Maayan Aviv is a nonprofit executive and the CEO of American Friends of NATAL (AFN), the U.S. partner of NATAL: The Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center. Established in 1998, NATAL is an apolitical, internationally recognized organization specializing in war- and terror-related trauma, having served over 450,000 individuals. Under Aviv’s leadership, AFN has mobilized critical funding and strategic partnerships to address the unprecedented mental health crisis stemming from recent conflicts, with a specific focus on scaling up crisis operations, workplace reintegration, and helping the surged demographic of traumatized young adults and first responders.

NATALAFN on IGLiving Alongside Trauma (Post-Traumatic Growth): Aviv champions a shift from merely "fixing" PTSD to fostering post-traumatic growth (PTG). She emphasizes that successful therapy empowers individuals to rebuild meaningful lives and safely coexist with their history, rather than waiting for its complete erasure.
Non-Traditional Innovation (Healing Ink): Highlighting the need for multi-sensory healing, Aviv advocates for innovative, somatic therapies. A prime example is NATAL’s support of initiatives like "Healing Ink," where terror survivors use tattooing as a cathartic, physical vehicle to externalize internal pain and reclaim ownership over their bodies.

• https://www.afnatal.org/post/healing-ink-x-afn-february-26-2026

Cross-Border Innovation (The TURN Model): Demonstrating the universal language of trauma, NATAL’s clinical architecture serves as the blueprint for Chicago’s South Side via The TURN Model (Bright Star Community Outreach).  

• https://www.brightstarcommunityoutreach.com/turn-model

Peer Support & "Helping the Helpers": To combat strained clinical infrastructure, Aviv champions NATAL's Peer Support networks, which train trauma survivors to deliver immediate emotional first aid.  

• https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/healing-power-of-peers-how-israelis-are-supporting-each-other-through-trauma/

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Alanna Bell has spent over two decades as a trauma-informed therapist, school counselor, and healing arts practitioner. But her most powerful credentials weren’t earned in classrooms—they were shaped in the quiet, painful spaces of her own recovery.Like so many helpers, Alanna was trained to listen, hold, and guide others toward healing. What she wasn’t trained for was how to fall apart.

Years into her career, she found herself facing the very thing she’d helped others navigate: addiction, shame, and the unraveling of a carefully held-together life.What followed was not a clean or linear redemption story—but a raw, deeply human journey back to wholeness. Through treatment, truth-telling, and long-term recovery, Alanna discovered what she now shares with others: healing is possible, but it doesn’t come through perfection. It comes through honesty, community, and grace.Today, she blends clinical insight, lived experience, and spiritual depth to support others—especially those in helping professions—who find themselves on roads they never meant to take.

The Road I Never Meant to Take is her first book, and the beginning of many overdue conversations.The Road I Never Meant to Take, unfolds through a series of deeply personal letters written by a character known only as L—a therapist in recovery whose voice carries the lived experiences of Alanna and countless others she has worked with along the way. Through L, readers are invited into the quiet truths that often go unspoken in the lives of helpers and healers. The result is a memoir that is both intimately personal and universally relatable.

Links

• Allana Writes
• www.AlannaBellWrites.com 
• www.SoulWiseInstitute.com
• alannajbell@gmailcom

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Shigeko Ito is a Japanese-born educator and mental health advocate with a PhD in Education from Stanford University. She is the author of The Pond Beyond the Forest, a memoir exploring childhood emotional neglect, intergenerational trauma, and the long path toward healing. Drawing on lived experience and cross-cultural insight, she offers a deeply honest and moving story of resilience, punctuated by moments of levity and hope.

In This Episode

• Shigeko’s website
• Shigeko Ito on Instagram
• The Pond Beyond the Forest

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Romain Daumont is an entrepreneur and founder of Luminara, a digital platform designed to make energy healing and biofield therapies more accessible worldwide. He created Luminara to bridge ancient healing practices with modern technology, curating vetted practitioners and delivering one-to-one sessions through a remote, immersive experience. His work is driven by a personal journey of loss, which led him to focus on creating spaces for healing, connection, and transformation at scale.

Links

• Luminara website: https://www.luminara.care/
• About Luminara: https://www.luminara.care/about-us/
• Luminara (company profile): https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminara-care/

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Dr. Kore Glied and Anna White interview conflict mediation expert Elizabeth Clemants about child sexual abuse. Kore and Anna are co-founders of The Type C Personality Project, which helps people who have difficulty saying no, take responsibility for the emotions of others, carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, and avoid conflict at all costs. They are authors of the upcoming book, The Empowered Type C, publishing May 2027.

Elizabeth is the founder of Hidden Water, a non-profit that uses a restorative justice model to work through child sexual abuse and the conflict that results in families. She is author of Healing Together: A Family Guide to Recovering from Sexual Harm.


For more information about these two initiatives, please visit:

• www.thetypecpersonality.com, Instagram @thetypecpersonality, and podcast The Type C Personality
• www.hiddenwatercircle.org and www.elizabethclemants.com 

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Zalak Raval is a Senior Associate practicing Corporate Securities law in New York., an author, and a TEDx speaker. After experiencing a period of personal and professional upheaval, she began rebuilding her life through self-awareness, gratitude, and meditation. In 2024, she published her first book, 50 Shades of Shit: How to Unlearn and Rewire Our Unconscious, which combines philosophy, practical tools, and memoir. Her work explores how unconscious beliefs and patterns shaped by past experiences can influence relationships, decisions, and our sense of self. (Superdoodle)

In This Episode

• Zalak Raval's Story
• Zalak Raval's TEDx Animation
• Zalak Raval's Work with Superdoodle
• [email protected]

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