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Power To Be Happy: Journey of Healing, Together

Joe Bakhmoutski

When you have a difficult story in life, it is so hard to bring it out into the open and “deal with it”… Sometimes you don’t even realise just how much it’s been affecting you in your day to day – or so has it been for me. And so I am trying to make sense of it all, and in this podcast, I want to share some of the vital things that I’m learning on this journey towards healing and hope. You are not alone, my friend! I’m here for you, and you – you deserve to be happy, and let’s figure things out

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#112 – What Is Happiness For You?

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2023/08/14

Some say happy moments are brief, but their impact is often long lasting. These are moments that walk through unseen, and they’re bringing us strength, strength is fuel that’s keeping us going when we’re needing it most. I remember my hospital stay during cancer, and what I loved the most was the cafe downstairs. You could get yourself cake, a sandwich, a coffee, and make your way into a little courtyard. You find yourself in a beautiful little oasis amongst the hospital walls - it is covered

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21:19

#111 – Healing and Growing

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2023/08/11

The biggest impact of traumatic past is you being shut off from part of you deep on the inside. But when it is back, your whole being is surging to wholeness… The best thing about it? There’s no going back. The surging of joy, the welcoming back of a part that lay buried within. The moment that I stopped myself running away… From when I was eight, the memory of the stranger. He led me away from the home, deep into the forest. I was like a puppet in following every instruction to please

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23:25

#110 – What You Go Through Each Day

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2023/08/03

Turning your feelings in words - always hard. Especially when those are the feelings that speak to the hurt and uncertainty that has built up inside… But here’s the challenge - if we don’t find a way to *somehow* release them, they will stay trapped in inside. But words have power - for us, and the people who care. In this podcast, I am exploring some safe, compassionate ways to release your feelings from being pent up inside and out into the world: Thank you for being here, my

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#109 – If You’re Feeling Alone

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2023/07/26

There’s a moment you know you’re in love - you remember it, don’t you? It’s that spark, the emotion, and you don’t know what’s next, yet you can’t help but feel. We say ‘falling in love’ because it’s what happens - you do not get a choice, and you’re drawn to them. It’s the same when you’re living with trauma: We do not get a choice, or say, with what happened to you. We do not get a choice into how it’s shaped us, inside… For me, thinking I’m crazy, and fall into panic, unable to breathe, or

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53:27

#108 – Healing and Grief

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2023/07/15

Losing someone you love changes your life in an instant. This is the story of my friend Helen losing her husband to cancer. We talk about grieving, healing, and the life beyond. Helen is so honest and full of light, and her story is moving in a profound way because it speaks to our shared story of struggle: Thank you for being here, my friend! Your journey is unlike anyone else, and yet there’s so much we share - we all who are touched by trauma. Your story is our story, and through

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24:25

#107 – Denying the Trauma

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2023/07/07

Denial - a soft woolly blanket on a cold morning. If I can stayed curled up here in bed, then everything turns out okay. And does it? Life is facing the inevitable - you are seeing things as they are. You try and keep going even you don’t know how - this is HOPE. Our hope, the journey to giving your because you have so much to give! Our hope, the journey to grow into the life you deserve, of love, the joy and affection, and dreams, your dreams of making things right. Our hope, the journey to

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31:01

#106 – Difficult Road to Forgiveness

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2023/06/30

The strangest thing happened - I was driving to work when all of a sudden, the car behind me starts honking and screeching, and driver leans out the window, starts hurtling abuse. At me - but I do not scream, or show him the finger… No, I blow him a kiss. With a big loving smile. And there’s a change: Bravado is gone, in an instant - the driver shuts off, turns away, and steering the car onto the freeway, he disappears. Oh I felt a winner, my friend - if only this once! But why blow a kiss to

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30:54

#105 – Finding Your Inspiration

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2023/06/24

A friend asked me if I have any episodes about inspiration… Because he was feeling down, and not in a good place. And that’s what it’s for: Inspiration is a feeling that’s lifting you up, and giving you boost, and urging you act. NOW. When you feel inspired, you don’t wait for the perfect moment… You also don’t brainstorm - you ACT! No waiting, but action that helping you heal, and feel better, in sharing your truth, expressing your true, authentic self. It’s hard - for us as survivors, for

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40:30

#104 – Healing with Therapy

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2023/06/09

The rape - I couldn’t talk about it for years. And I was a child, I didn’t have words to describe what it was, or how it’s been messing me up. The worst part of trauma - it hides in your body, and you’re trapped, inside. You’re helpless, alone, and want to do something about it, but what? The first person I spoke to was our family doctor. I left his office with a prescription for antidepressants, throwing it in the bin… I wasn’t sure about what kind of help I wanted, but this didn’t sit well

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32:38

#103 – How Do We Stop Hurting Today?

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2023/05/31

What most people see is the “safe” part of you - is this who you are on the inside? I think that we’re more than that, and part that we’re willing to share is one part of many that makes you the person that you are today. These parts might be speaking to diverging hopes, hurts, and stories we carry within. The first time I spoke to survivor, like me, I felt understood, but also more whole: I felt that a part of me came back to life. The part that was hurt, as a child, that lived on in fear and

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20:47

#101 – The Five Hidden Virtues

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2023/05/31

With trauma, we’re always running away from hurt… Because too painful, and yet, that is exactly what can get in the way of healing. Take me - I spent most of my life suppressing the memory of abuse, and how it has messed me up… Listen, how could I speak, share my story, get help: When I could not even begin to ACKNOWLEDGE the wreckage it made of my life! And I’ve been living in hurt for years because I didn’t know healing and what it can do. But everything changed the moment I met a survivor -

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26:43

#102 – The Secrets That Hurt Us

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2023/05/08

The moment you know that you’re changed, truly is learning you’re not alone. So this is a year ago, outside at the café that has already closed for the night: Sitting across from me is a woman who is a holding a draft of my play. Yes, I read that she’s running a program for survivors of child sexual abuse… But she’s here, and she looks at me, straight in the eyes, and says: Joe, have you ever shared your story - with anyone? No, is the only thing I can muster. And she starts telling hers… It

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#100 – The Future You Want Beyond Trauma

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2023/05/01

Today I told a friend about going through rape as a child. And she took well, in the sense of truth and acceptance, as something that’s normal, a part of me. But it’s also released me - from secrets, from shame, and the pain that I carry with me. Every single time I share this story, and by now, most people in my life they know, I get a sense of relief - let go of the burden I carry. Because I can look to the future. Have you ever shared your story, my friend? To feel truly heard,

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#99 – Your Story, Your Truth, and Clarity

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2023/04/25

Did you know that sharing something you just learned with a fellow human can help you integrate this knowledge at a much deeper level? Because you understand how it works and what it represents, but explaining it makes you find a place for it in your, to fit in with the rest of your experience. And I think that it’s true for events that take place in our own life… Say, have you ever noticed how sharing a personal story with friend, or a loved one made you see it in a different light? We are

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#98 – When You’re Wanting To Heal

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2023/04/17

How come is it that we don’t get to experience the depth and the beauty of life in the way we deserve after going through trauma? And why do so many of us go through life and suffer, without the help that we so desperately need in order to heal? Here is one reason – because we get turned away. For it was the family doctors – I muster the courage to speak not because of strength, but pure desperation: The woman I loved has left me for somebody else, and I’m in the bottomless pit of depression,

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#97 – Healing From Shame

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2023/04/13

When I’m thinking of shame, I can see myself naked, in bed, lying flat on my face. We had only just met, and we made it to my place, we’ve been tearing our clothes off… Only I cannot do it. I cannot have sex - again. There’s something that’s pulling me back, it’s from my past, past I can’t even see, feel, or get close… But it’s interrupting my life, right now. And I can’t even cry, just stare into the white emptiness. She says something, and her words they sound kind, but she’s walking away. Shame

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49:35

#96 – Learning Your Truth

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2023/03/31

Today, I bring you a vital conversation with Cathy Kezelman. I was so moved by Cathy’s book “Innocence Revisited”, and I had to know more. Cathy is a child sexual abuse survivor, her story shrouded by disassociation, and the startling discoveries have shaken Cathy’s world to the core. Cathy’s path towards learning the truth, and the path towards healing, and the inspirational journey of creating Blue Knot Foundation to make an incredible difference to the people affected by complex trauma, is

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29:20

#95 – Affirmations for Self-Love

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2023/03/06

When you are on the plane, the safety instructor always tells you to put your oxygen mask first, in case of an accident, before you are helping someone… Why? Because if something happens to you, who is going to step in, and act? Same is true for love, for affection and care - when you give so much, it can all too easy to forget about you… And sometimes, it’s harder because nobody taught us to care for ourselves! So it’s us who must find ways to care - for ourselves, to show love, compassion for the

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#94 – Healing Through Art

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2023/02/23

What does creativity have to do with trauma? Being creative in a way that is meaningful for you is what helps us heal, feel expressive and more alive! This week, I am talking to my artist and playwright friend, Achiro Olwoch, about sharing your truth and healing from trauma. My friend, where does the time go, and are we spending it right? It makes you wonder, especially if you’re feeling stuck, in a rush, just trying to get through the day… The moment it happens, like I was in writing my play,

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#93 – Believe in Yourself

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2023/02/09

Even in most darkest hour, one glimmer remains - hope. Hope that things can, and do, change… For the better! It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but it can happen. This isn’t a promise, or guarantee, but a possibility. Because when you lose faith in your circumstance, lose confidence in the struggle that you face today, please go on, keep believing - in you! In you, the you who deserves to be happy, the you who’s seen the struggle before, but found the strength to heal, stand your

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