The Wounded Healer with Melissa K Byers

16/01/2023 1h 9min

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Episode Synopsis

Lisa sits down with coach, Melissa K Byers to talk about what it looks like to lead while healing, as Melissa gets honest and vulnerable about her history with binging disordered eating and how she copes to this day.
Topics:

Bulimia
Holding space and having support
Dissociation
Healing through somatics and restorative yoga

[5:00] Melissa explains what is it means to “clean up the bloodline,” and healing generational trauma
[7:00] Melissa talks about what pulled her toward Lisa’s work and Out of the Cave and what it means to lead while still having her own work to do
[14:00] Melissa recalls how and when food and eating became disordered and her experience with Bulimia, and how she copes when temptations to fall back to those behaviors creep up in her life today
[28:00] Melissa thinks back to the first time she binged and purged and how it became a 3 year addiction and the lack of support she received when she was “found out”
[36:00] Melissa reflects on the “why,” of how for a time, binging and purging was a solution that made sense to her
[44:00] Melissa talks about her 2023 intention being to invest in therapy and being numb during the three years she was in an active eating disorder and processes what it was like for her to be “found out”
[54:00] Melissa shares how getting educated as a social worker gave her the space and support to start healing
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