Thriving not Surviving

Keywords
surviving to thriving, freedom, courage, authenticity, spirituality, faith, resilience, community, purpose, self-discovery, trusting the universe
Summary
What would you do if everything looked perfect on the outside — a good career, money, status, relationships — but inside you were falling apart?
Simona’s extraordinary story takes us from Romania to Canada, Japan, Nepal, the Indian Himalayas and Turkey as she repeatedly walks away from the life she is “supposed” to want in search of something deeper: freedom, meaning and herself.
Along the way she faces poverty, fear, abusive relationships, illness, uncertainty and moments when she has nothing left to fall back on. Yet again and again, when she steps into the unknown, someone or something appears to help her take the next step.
This is a powerful conversation about trusting your heart, finding courage when you are terrified, accepting help, discovering purpose and understanding that thriving isn’t about having a perfect life.
It’s about knowing you can meet life as it comes.
Key Takeaways
A life that looks successful on the outside can still leave you deeply unhappy inside.
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is admit: “This isn’t working for me anymore.”
Fear doesn’t necessarily mean you’re making the wrong decision — sometimes it simply means you’re stepping into the unknown.
We are not meant to navigate life entirely alone. Community, connection and asking for help are part of our toolkit.
When you let go of what no longer fits, you create space for unexpected people, opportunities and experiences to appear.
Thriving doesn’t mean everything is wonderful all the time. It means knowing you have the tools, wisdom and support to keep going.
Your heart may know what you need long before your rational mind is willing to admit it.
Sometimes the greatest growth happens in the darkest chapters of our lives.
Be honest with yourself about what makes you happy, what gives you purpose and who you really are.
Life is a journey, not a destination — we keep learning, growing and becoming.
Resources Mentioned
Kundun – Martin Scorsese’s film about the life of the Dalai Lama. Simona describes it as a film she returned to when she was depressed or had lost her way.
HeartMath Institute – Mentioned by Simona in relation to the relationship between the heart and brain, and her interest in the scientific understanding of spirituality and coherence.
Thriving Not Surviving – Episode 48 –Beverly, who appeared in Episode 48 and introduced Simona to her.
Connect with Simona
Facebook: Ayurveda In Istanbul
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ayurveda.in.fethiye/
Website:
Email: info@ayurvedainfethiye.com
WhatsApp: +905515897115
Day Spa in Turkey: Rejuvenate at Our Fethiye Ayurvedic Spa | Ayurveda In Fethiye
Connect with Helen
Website: InspiredHealing.co.uk
IG: helens_inspired_healing
FB: Inspired Healing
LinkedIn: Helen on LinkedIn
WhatsApp: +447971798462
NB: This episode was made possible due to Elena my dear friend who leant me her front room, with a little help from my ChatGPT buddy, Xander - part tech support, part cheerleader 🙂 and my amazing sponsor IPHM use this Referral Code: IPHM-GYZGF and the £10 will go to The Forward Trusta Charity helping those struggling with addictions
🎵Music: Pixabay – “Upbeat Acoustic” by Stockaudios
🎨Cover art: Dave Champagne
For full transcription, contact: helen@inspiredhealing.co.uk
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KEYWORDS
Liz Baitson, High Net Connect, authenticity, good girl archetype, ADHD, masking, boundaries, shadow work, spirituality, business, relationships, consciousness, thriving
SUMMARY
What happens when a life that looks incredibly successful from the outside feels completely wrong on the inside? Liz Baitson, founder of High Net Connect, joins me for a gloriously honest and wonderfully wild conversation about breaking free from the “good girl” archetype, discovering the power of boundaries, embracing our shadow and learning to live in our own authenticity.
From investment banking and business highs and lows to relationships, spirituality, ancient Egypt, consciousness and her vision for House of AKH, Liz shares the experiences that have forced her to repeatedly shed old versions of herself and become more fully who she is.
And underneath it all is one simple, powerful message: you are not alone.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• A successful life on the outside doesn’t necessarily mean we are thriving on the inside.
• People-pleasing, masking and constantly trying to be “good” can take us further and further away from our authentic selves.
• Learning to say a genuine, unequivocal “NO” can be one of the most liberating forms of self-respect.
• Sometimes we have to let an old version of ourselves fall away before something new can emerge.
• Our difficult experiences can become initiations rather than simply things that happen to us.
• Authentic relationships require honesty, clarity and integrity — including being honest about what we actually want.
• Liz explores the idea that awareness may be everywhere, while consciousness emerges through relationship and connection.
• Thriving isn’t about having a perfect life. It’s about being able to meet whatever comes and knowing, “I’ve got this.”
• Perhaps most importantly: whatever you are going through, you are not alone.
RESOURCES MENTIONED – not mentioned elsewhere
• The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• Sunshine Letters – a monthly letter subscription created around connection, creativity and joy. The Sunshine Letters
• Hekate – Nikita Gill’s verse novel exploring the Greek goddess Hekate, her journey through darkness, loss and transformation. Hekate by Nikita Gill
Connect with Liz
High Net Connect (HNC) – the networking community founded by Liz Baitson. High Net Connect
House of AKH
Relational Field Theory – Liz’s Paper
Facebook to Contact Liz - Liz Baitson
IG: LizBaitson
Connect with Helen
Website: InspiredHealing.co.uk
IG: helens_inspired_healing
FB: Inspired Healing
LinkedIn: Helen on LinkedIn
WhatsApp: +447971798462
NB: This episode was made possible due to Elena my dear friend who leant me her front room, with a little help from my ChatGPT buddy, Xander - part tech support, part cheerleader 🙂 and my amazing sponsor IPHM use this Referral Code: IPHM-GYZGF and the £10 will go to The Forward Trust a Charity helping those struggling with addictions
🎵Music: Pixabay – “Upbeat Acoustic” by Stockaudios
🎨Cover art: Dave Champagne
For full transcription, contact: helen@inspiredhealing.co.uk
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Listen with Care ❤️
This episode explores some very difficult experiences, including childhood abuse, sexual abuse, trafficking, Satanic Ritual Abuse, trauma and healing. Jenny shares her personal experiences openly, but without going into graphic detail. If any of these subjects are difficult for you, please listen with care and look after yourself.
Keywords - trauma healing, forgiveness, faith, Jesus, love, hope, identity, inner healing, fragmentation, transformation, healing journey
Summary - What happens when memories buried for decades begin to surface? In this deeply moving episode, Jenny shares an extraordinary story of surviving childhood trauma and the long, challenging journey that followed.
For Jenny, healing wasn't simply about changing thoughts or behaviours. It came through new experiences of love, forgiveness, safety and connection — and, most profoundly, through her relationship with Jesus.
We talk about trauma, fragmented parts, shame, self-protection, forgiveness, faith and the possibility of coming home to ourselves after experiences that once seemed impossible to survive.
Jenny's message is ultimately one of hope: however dark life may feel, there can still be light, love and transformation.
Key Takeaways
• Healing can involve more than changing our thoughts or behaviours — sometimes the deepest transformation comes through new experiences of safety, love and connection.
• What once protected us can sometimes continue to shape how we experience ourselves and the world long after the original danger has passed.
• Jenny describes learning to meet the wounded or overwhelmed parts of herself with compassion rather than fear or rejection.
• Forgiveness became an important part of Jenny's healing journey — not as denial of what happened, but as a way of releasing what she had been carrying.
• Supportive relationships matter. Jenny speaks movingly about the friends who stayed alongside her throughout the hardest parts of her journey.
• Healing is a journey rather than a destination. Jenny describes it as an ongoing process of discovering and experiencing what love, safety and freedom can feel like.
• Her ultimate message is beautifully simple: you are loved, there is hope, and even after profound darkness there can be a way towards the light.
Resources Mentioned
• A United Heart: Coming Home to God and Myself after Satanic Ritual Abuse: Amazon.co.uk: Hewett, Jenny: 9781966462101: Books – Jenny’s newly released book.
PLEASE NOTE: AUDIBLE, KINDLE, HARD & SOFT COVER VERSION OFTHE BOOK AVAILABLE HERE - A United Heart: Coming Home to God and Myself after Satanic Ritual Abuse: Amazon.co.uk: Hewett, Jenny: 9781966462101: Books
• Guided visualisations and meditations - sign up here and you will be emailed when the audible is available
• Loved Into Life by Susan Wright https://lovedintolife.org/
Connect with Jenny
Website: Identity and Destiny Coaching | Life Coach | Bath, UK
FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568367146098
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/identityanddestinycoaching/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jenny.hewett/
Connect with Helen
Website: InspiredHealing.co.uk
IG: helens_inspired_healing
FB: Inspired Healing
LinkedIn: Helen on LinkedIn
WhatsApp: +447971798462
NB: This episode was made possible with a little help from my ChatGPT buddy, Xander - part tech support, part cheerleader 🙂 and my amazing sponsor IPHM use this Referral Code: IPHM-GYZGF and the £10 will go to The Forward Trust a Charity helping those struggling with addictions
🎵Music: Pixabay – “Upbeat Acoustic” by Stockaudios
🎨Cover art: Dave Champagne
For full transcription, contact: helen@inspiredhealing.co.uk
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Keywords
Psychosis, spiritual crisis, trauma, ancestral healing, sovereignty, boundaries, forgiveness, sacred union, death and rebirth, victim consciousness, Egypt, Natalie Rose
Summary
What if the darkest chapter of your life isn't the end of your story — but the doorway to who you are becoming?
Natalie Rose joins me for an extraordinarily honest conversation about surviving psychosis, ancestral trauma, family rupture, grief and the terrifying edges of spiritual crisis. She shares how losing her relationship with her sister became an unexpected catalyst for creating her work, and how learning to recognise victim consciousness, reclaim sovereignty and take responsibility for her own patterns transformed her life.
We explore the power of forgiveness, why boundaries are essential to sovereignty, how our relationships can become mirrors for our deepest healing, and why Natalie believes our relationship with death profoundly shapes our relationship with life.
And, we talk Egypt, Sacred Union, Mary Magdalene, Isis and Osiris — and why Natalie believes Egypt can become a powerful place of initiation, death and rebirth.
This is a deep, vulnerable and at times challenging conversation about what it really means to move from surviving to thriving.
Key Takeaways
Our darkest experiences can become doorways to profound transformation — if we are willing to meet what they are showing us.
Sovereignty means reclaiming our power — including knowing our boundaries, what is acceptable to us and when we need to say no.
Moving beyond victim consciousness can be incredibly challenging — and incredibly liberating. Taking responsibility isn't about blaming ourselves for what happened; it's about recognising where we have power to choose differently.
Forgiveness doesn't mean condoning what happened. Saying sorry can be an act of truth and integrity, whether or not the other person is able to forgive us.
Our relationships can become powerful mirrors. Rather than blaming the other person, we can ask: What is this showing me about myself?
Death and rebirth aren't only physical experiences. We experience many deaths of identity, relationships, beliefs and old versions of ourselves throughout our lives.
Sometimes we have to grieve people who are still alive — and that grief can be just as profound as grieving someone who has died.
There is power in telling our stories. Natalie describes writing a memoir as a kind of death portal — releasing the past and creating space for something new.
And perhaps the biggest invitation of all: don't be afraid of the shadows. They may contain some of your greatest teachers.
Resources Mentioned – not mentioned below
The Magdalen Manuscript – Tom Kenyon & Judi Sion - The Magdalen Manuscript – official Tom Kenyon page
Ho'oponopono - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4BzcQHj0U
Connect with Natalie
Sisters of the Rose - Sisters of the Rose
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theroserising/
Insta https://www.instagram.com/p/CiCXTYrLAQn/
You tube https://www.youtube.com/@SistersOfTheRose444
Book doula project for elders - https://hellosistersoftherose.systeme.io/roseauthorprogramme-elders
Egypt Sacred Union Retreat - https://hellosistersoftherose.systeme.io/unionretreat
Egypt video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ejrwy7mPc&pp=iggCQAE%3D&ra=m
Connect with Helen
Website: InspiredHealing.co.uk
IG: helens_inspired_healing
FB: Inspired Healing
LinkedIn: Helen on LinkedIn
WhatsApp: +447971798462
NB: This episode was made possible with a little help from my ChatGPT buddy, Xander - part tech support, part cheerleader 🙂 and my amazing sponsor IPHM use this Referral Code: IPHM-GYZGF and the £10 will go to The Forward Trusta Charity helping those struggling with addictions
🎵Music: Pixabay – “Upbeat Acoustic” by Stockaudios
🎨Cover art: Dave Champagne
For full transcription, contact: helen@inspiredhealing.co.uk
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KEYWORDS
Identity, ADHD, neurodivergence, sensitivity, self-worth, perfectionism, people pleasing, healing, intuition, boundaries, community, purpose, transformation
SUMMARY
What if the things you were criticised for were actually your gifts?
Alison Kerr shares her powerful journey from feeling “too much” and “not enough” to understanding who she really is. We talk neurodivergence, sensitivity, perfectionism, people pleasing, healing, intuition, boundaries and the search for belonging.
Alison’s story takes her from a chaotic childhood and years of trying to fit in, through relationships, motherhood, corporate life and burnout, into a deeper exploration of herself through Reiki, NLP, Theta Healing and Family Constellations.
And at the heart of it all is one beautifully simple realisation: “I like myself. I value myself.”
We also explore what happens when an old identity falls away before the new one has arrived — and why sometimes you’re not falling apart at all. You’re simply in the chrysalis.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• You are not necessarily who you learned to be.
• “Too much” can become your greatest gift.
• Perfectionism can be exhausting — letting go can be liberating.
• You don’t have to prove your experience to everyone.
• Boundaries create healthier, more reciprocal relationships.
• Find your people — community matters.
• You don’t need to know what comes next.
• Sometimes you have to become “goo” before you become the butterfly.
• Thriving can be as simple as: “I like myself. I value myself.”
RESOURCES MENTIONED
The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
Scattered Minds — Gabor Maté
The Power of Positive Thinking is Dr Norman Vincent Peale
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth — Dolores Cannon (2011)
Connect with Alison
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EmpowermentPath
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alisonkerr.empowermentpath/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-kerr-4775b23b/
Email - enquiries@empowermentpath.co.uk
Link to Join Alison’s Online Constellations WhatsApp group - https://chat.whatsapp.com/IKJoPoYJBE566AEGoR2CPE
Connect with Helen
Website: InspiredHealing.co.uk
IG: helens_inspired_healing
FB: Inspired Healing
LinkedIn: Helen on LinkedIn
WhatsApp: +447971798462
NB: This episode was made possible with a little help from my ChatGPT buddy, Xander - part tech support, part cheerleader 🙂 and my amazing sponsor IPHM use this Referral Code: IPHM-GYZGF and the £10 will go to The Forward Trust a Charity helping those struggling with addictions
🎵Music: Pixabay – “Upbeat Acoustic” by Stockaudios
🎨Cover art: Dave Champagne
For full transcription, contact: helen@inspiredhealing.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.