I know that when we hear the word, "trauma", we automatically think about a mishap so catastrophic to our sensibilities and sense of self that we struggle both internally and externally as a result. That's true and valid and today's guest trauma survivor and Certified Trauma Professional Alexia Smith and I talk about that. But as you listen, I want you to consider the celebrated attacks on your personhood, your worth and your worthiness that have been passed down from generation to generation. Those Western-culture sized, politically correct traumas that are just as much a crime against your enoughness than any; because they tell you that you aren't enough unless you are better than the next person at complying with their definition.

In today’s episode, Alexia exposes the trauma behind it all and what has to happen in order to reclaim your happiness and your most honest state. She's stopped eating at tables where love is not being served. I have personally been challenged by our conversation to do the same and am actively choosing Divine-sized love.

ABOUT ALEXIA SMITH

Alexia is a licensed counselor, mental health coach, psycho-educator and speaker whose calling is to help adult survivors of childhood traumas to uncover the Divine lessons of their past, appreciate the gifts of their present, and create the futures they deserve. She completed her training as a Clinical Mental Health/Pastoral Counselor at Loyola University in Maryland, focused on grief, childhood trauma, eating disorders in the Black community and spirituality. She is also a Certified Trauma Professional (CTP) with special training on treatment of traumatic stress. As a survivor of childhood physical and sexual abuse, parental homicide, and anxiety and depression, she hopes to share her triumphs with other kindred Spirits who have broken parts of themselves that need restoration.

MENTIONS

Sea Lion Rescue
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11532796/

Jada Pinkett-Smith’s “Entanglement” (Red Table Talk)
https://www.facebook.com/redtabletalk/videos/718425758995043

What is Submission? (IGTV)
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CK-CYUIAZ0B/

Dr. James C. Jackson (Vanderbilt University)
https://www.icudelirium.org/team/james-c-jackson-psyd

OTHER WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ALEXIA

Website: www.thedivineperseverance.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/iamalexianicolesmith
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/alexiansmith
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamalexianicolesmith

CREDITS

Music by DH The Composer https://linktr.ee/dhthecomposer
Cover Design by Odyssey Administrative Services LLC http://odysseyadministrativeservices.com
Cover Photo from gallery of royalty free photos on Pixteller.com