Breaking the Cycle: Overcoming Abuse and Finding Inner Peace with April Marie Gaines

Growing up with teenage parents and experiencing domestic abuse firsthand, April Gaines discovered her life mission - helping people develop self-esteem and inner peace through awareness. April joins us to share her deeply personal journey, detailing the abandonment and trauma she faced as a child, and the generational theme of teenage parenthood that drove her to become a young mom herself.

We learn from April how she took charge of her own healing journey, finding solace in massage therapy, Reiki healing, and tarot cards after divorcing her first husband. Determined to provide a better life for her children, she went back to school, earning her GED, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Now, April offers her clients a range of services, from mental health counseling to spiritual readings and energy healing. Listen in as she reminds us of our infinite worth and potential for gratitude, regardless of the hardships we may face.

Co-author of the RISING AFTER ABUSE anthology, April's story is found in chapter #20

Buy the anthology in Kindle, Paperback, or Hardcover formats on Amazon: https://a.co/d/eb4KH7g

April’s bio and introduction

April Gaines is a Professional Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counselor. A Certified Advanced Alcohol and Addictions Counselor through McBap of Michigan. April has spent a total of 22 years studying and obtaining numerous degrees and certificates in mental health, substance abuse, healing, and spirituality domains.

A few of these certifications include being two times Reiki Energy Healing Master, an Ama Deus Energy Healer, a certified Hypnotherapist, a Past Life Regression Therapist, a Certified Auricular Acupuncturist, and a Clairvoyant psychic medium.

April has made it her life's mission to help as many people as she can develop permanent self-esteem and inner peace through awareness. Teaching people they have innate worth, value, and purpose in this life. April has the gift of being a psychic medium where she gets the privilege to heal many souls, guide people in their lives, and connect them to loved ones on the other side. Everything she does is intended to heal and spread love and light in the world.

April has created courses to teach permanent self-esteem and inner peace. As well as a tarot card mastery and developing psychic ability course. April also serves on a weekly Echkart Tolle spiritual panel and has been a guest on many webinars, masterminds, and podcasts. All with the intent to help heal as many souls as she can in one lifetime.

Connect with April

Email: soulessentialshealing@yahoo.com

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulesstentialshealing

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulessentialshealing/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soulessentialshealing/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb_eLiKPj_jER31QQ5BqItQ

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amgaines718

Linktree hub of all the URLs: https://linktr.ee/soulessentialshealing

 

 

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Jennifer’s introduction and bio

Jennifer Jayne is a Success Coach and the Founder of Fempreneur Collective, a company that helps women in business share their stories through content and community connections. Originally from Toronto, Jennifer is passionate about encouraging women business owners to elevate their platform and thrive in their entrepreneurial journeys.With over a decade of experience as a blogger and digital entrepreneur, Jennifer loves supporting entrepreneurs as a business coach and social media manager. As a success coach, Jennifer works one-on-one with her clients to define and meet their goals so they can experience success on their own terms. Just a few of the ways she does this is by diving deep into core values - both personal and brand, breaking down the "shoulds" of success and creating simple success metrics that align with her client's success impact map.In her spare time, Jennifer loves to get lost in a good book. She's a passionate crafter, particularly with sewing and hand embroidery, and is a proud Mom to her four rescues - two dogs and two cats!

Connect with Jennifer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejenniferjayne/Instagram 1: https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferjayne/Instagram 2: https://www.instagram.com/fempreneur.co/Current website: https://fempreneurco.comThe initial website from 2010 to 2020: https://busybeingjennifer.com

Email: jennifer@thejenniferjayne.com

Summary of our episode

* Jennifer Jayne experienced verbal, mental, financial, and medical abuse in a relationship with a narcissist for 10 years

* She had no access to a bank account, medical care, or a currently valid driver's license

* She was able to build a lifestyle business and make friends through the Internet while in the relationship

* A friend asked her if she was happy and another friend witnessed the verbal abuse and told her it was not okay

* A stranger in Canada told her that what she experienced were domestic violence and human trafficking

* She was able to escape Texas and drive to Toronto in Canada with the help of several of her friends and her mother

* Jennifer Jayne started blogging in 2010 when she moved to Texas, re-upcycling items and sharing her creative adventures

* She grew her business by doing virtual assistant (VA) work and social media management, working 12-18 hours a day to feel safe

* She left Texas with a suitcase and a bin of computer stuff, leaving her two dogs behind

* She started her business from scratch in Canada, coaching and doing social media management

* She focuses on core values and creating a success impact map to help her clients understand what success looks and feels like

* Celebrating accomplishments is important, and can involve taking a break from the computer, getting some water, and getting some vitamin D and sunshine

* Jennifer Jayne discussed the importance of breaking down core values to a microscopic level in order to create an impact success map.

* Gemma Serenity Gorokhoff advised the audience to rewind and listen to the prompts shared by Jennifer, and then answer them for themselves.

* Jennifer encouraged people to connect with her on Instagram at @thejenniferjayne and on her platform Fempreneur Collective, where she connects women with opportunities to talk about what makes them uniquely magical.

* Her email address is jennifer@thejenniferjayne.com.

* Gemma thanked Jennifer for being a beacon of guidance and opening up possibilities for those listening.

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Gresson’s short bio

Gresson currently has an office job as a profession but has always known that she had a bigger role to play in this world. She is convinced that she is able to teach something and inspire and motivate others and that she had to learn valuable lessons first in order to get to her own wisdom and inner power.

The time has come to share the knowledge and wisdom through her own experience and to step into her life purpose.

People around her always have known her as the shy and quiet type. It’s about time to get her full potential out. Through the process of spiritual awakening, she has found herself and she can maintain that balance by working with our energies.

Gresson thought she had to hide her Filipino identity because of people’s opinions around her. She was always perceived as “too much.” During her healing journey, she discovered that she inherited Filipino energy. She resonated more with Filipino culture and values. She managed to turn her pain into purpose and realized she didn’t have to hide her true identity anymore. She learned how to embrace her loving, caring, and intense energy. We all should be able to be our true selves, find our own uniqueness and create our own paths.

In our lives, we get tested many times, and Gresson found out that she has always been guided by the Universe in everything she did. She knows that everything has happened the way it was supposed to. Those challenges have turned her from Chrysalis into the beautiful Butterfly she is today, sharing her light and working with energy.

Connect with Gresson

Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/gretchen.peiffer

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Sharingmylightbook/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gressonpeiffer_author/

Amazon author’s page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B097YL1Y33/about

Website: https://sharing-my-light.com/

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Janine McJannet’s introduction

Almost born in a taxicab, Janine McJannet has spent the better part of her life figuring out what the impact of growing up as an Adult Child of Alcoholics has had in her life. Living in a toxically chaotic household with alcoholic parents is where Janine’s beliefs were created, keeping her feeling unseen, unheard, insignificant, and unloved for many decades. Thank goodness she answered one of her wake-up calls!

Janine now shares her passion for breaking the cycle of family dysfunction through her work as an Integrative Health Coach, Rapid Transformational Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Speaker & Poet. Janine specializes in women’s empowerment and plays, realizing that life is short, and we all need to enjoy as much of it as we can, with whom we want to, every single day, regardless of our childhood trauma.By focusing on confidence, habits & beliefs, Janine helps women people pleasers and Adult Children recognize and turn their subconscious fears into conscious freedom, by releasing the tenacious childhood stories that have held them captive in their own prison of complacency. Janine is often appreciated for her exciting energy, her passion for transformation, and her incredible transformational tools, leaving them feeling liberated, independent, and whole.

Janine is the founder of the Soul Empowerment Lounge & Playground, where women come to feel connected and celebrate through a variety of hypnotherapy, coaching programs, masterclasses, soul challenges & events, guest interviews, and poetry ... and through her beloved inner child poetry.

Connect with Janine

Website: www.janinemcjannet.comLinktree: https://linktr.ee/JanineMcJannetSoul Empowerment Lounge (FB): https://www.facebook.com/groups/soulempowermentloungeSoul Empowerment Playground (Mighty Networks): https://bit.ly/Soul-Empowerment-PlaygroundFree: Magical Morning Habit Tracker: https://bit.ly/Tracker-HabitFree: 3-Day Self-Care Challenge: https://bit.ly/Soul-Empowerment-Playground

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How to Keep Your Secret and Live Free from Shame with Gina Nelson, The Secret Keeper Coach

Co-author of the RISING AFTER ABUSE anthology, Gina Nelson's story is found in chapter #14

Buy the anthology in Kindle, Paperback, or Hardcover formats directly on Amazon: https://a.co/d/8xvNs7H 

Gina Nelson’s bio

Learning how to navigate the world of our personal secrets can be intimidating, overwhelming, and confusing. Societies are lacking tools for our toolboxes.

To fill this need, Gina Nelson, created a roadmap for healthy secret-keeping that advances our understanding and then can be shared with the next generation.

These tools build awareness, and self-compassion, and maintain wellness in body, mind, and spirit, creating more room for our much-deserved joy-seeking.

Gina Nelson's role in the world community is to support, educate, and empower others to heal from the pain of their secrets. Her life mission is to support adults and children who feel burdened by their secrets and to offer tools for healthy secret-keeping.

For over 20 years, Gina has been honoring secret keepers, like herself, by developing these needed options which help secret keepers begin healing long before they are ready to share their secrets.

She wished she had these skills instead of carrying the heavy burden of her secrets for decades following the long-term sexual and emotional abuse she endured as an adolescent. The weight and effect these secrets had on her physical, mental, and emotional development over the decades affected her life in countless ways.

Gina is a certified Body-Mind Counselor (BMC), Energy Healing Therapist (EHT), and Usui Reiki Practitioner. She is a 2006 graduate of Nine Gates Mystery School.

She works virtually and in person with individuals and groups through her business, Nurture 3 Healing.

Children and adults have felt safe, seen, and supported and feel hopeful, empowered, and more integrated after working with Gina. A few passions of her practice are trauma healing, honoring our stories, cultivating self-compassion, health crisis relief, and exploring limiting beliefs.

She supports mothers, women, and survivors to regain and realign mind/body/spiritual balance. She offers popular in-person and virtual workshops on Healthy Secret Keeping, Grace Hunting, Joy Seeking, rejuvenating mini-retreats, and nurture nights

for groups. Her healthy secret-keeping classes for children, prepare the next generation to manage their secrets from an early age. She runs The Secret Keeper Society, a virtual space that builds awareness, education, and community about the effects and choices of secret keeping.

Gina is a dynamic motivational speaker and coach. She is an advocate for abuse survivors and is an active member of Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service (OAASIS). She is an award-winning author of, “Becoming a Girl Powerhouse”, where she and other authors share their trauma to triumph stories.

Gina has a B.A. in Painting and Drawing and has been a practicing artist for over 25 years. She is a muralist, painting instructor, and performance artist.

She is a prolific poet and painter and is commissioned to create healing poetry and meaningful vision paintings for others.

Gina considers herself a Grace Hunter and a Joy Seeker. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and their two dogs who point them all toward joy. Look for her ground-breaking book on Healthy Secret Keeping.

 

Connect with Gina

On her website: https://nurture3healing.com/

By email: gina.nurture3healing@gmail.com

on Alignable, the local network for referrals and recommendations, for real networking and connections: https://www.alignable.com/mt-tabor-portland-or/nurture-3-healing-the-energy-of-secrets

 

 

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Ever feel like an imposter? Or maybe even like you are no longer fired up about life like you're living on a hamster wheel repeating the motions day in and day out?

Shā Sparks is an energetic catalyst and fearless communicator who sparks leaders in transition, who are unclear, go from fear to fired up about their life and business. Through her renowned Spark Your Alpha program, Shā’s audiences and clients experience more confidence, amplified emotional intelligence, and the spark that ignites their fearless action. Also, she provides an all-inclusive host for hire, podcast in a box service called Spark Your VOICE, and Podcasts to Publications.

As the CEO (Chief Excitement Officer) of Sparks of Fire International, she hosts The Power of Investing in People Podcast, is the author of How to Get Your Voice Back, is a Certified Fearless Living Coach and Trainer, and the Co-Founder of the FIRESTARTERS Book Project.

“Auntie Shā-Shā” to all of her friends’ kids, she is also an expert dog sitter and a rookie kayaker. Most importantly, Shā wants to inspire others to move confidently through change so they can step into their FIRE power!Her motto is when we share our own lessons learned of overcoming obstacles, we ignite a tiny spark of hope, love, connection, and community in other people. And when we ignite that spark, the whole world lights up.

Connect with Shā

Learn more about Shā on her website at: www.shasparks.com

Shā is also at the origin of an anthology, a book series called “FIRESTARTERS book project: How to Rekindle your Kindness” Connect with her to discover how you too can get published!

#FIRESTARTERS Book Project: www.firestartersbookproject.com3 main social media channels:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sha-sparks Facebook: www.facebook.com/shalia.sparks/ www.facebook.com/iamshasparks Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamshasparks

and her podcast/show!!

The Power of Investing in People podcast:

Available everywhere you listen to your podcasts, as well as over here:

Apple: https://apple.co/3C678mdSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAfrmX iHeart: https://ihr.fm/3IGzxl9 YouTube: www.youtube.com/shasparks

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Monica’s short bio

Monica Braun is an International Relationship Coach for single men and women. She founded Soul to Soul Coaching to help support single men and women living a soul-centered life within their relationships.

Inspired by the lessons that she learned from dating, she developed an Intentional Dating and Discernment Coaching Package that she implemented in her own personal life to go from toxic to soulmate.

She is now living happily ever after with her special person.

Connect with Monica

Website: www.monicamariebraun.comThis is the link to Monica’s freebie - the companion for her book https://monicamariebraun.com/free-resources/

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulfuldatingcoachon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monicabraun_soultosoulcoaching/on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/monicabraun28/

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Brenda B. Bailey, known as Your Revenue Accelerator, with 13 Integrative Healing certifications has operated a 7 figure business and has been an entrepreneur for 31 years. 

Having overcome emotional, mental, physical, and sexual abuse in her own life, Brenda saw for herself and others the direct correlation between abuse and lack in business and life.She’s blended her practical experience as a successful entrepreneur along with her Integrative Healing practices that allow people to have quick income transformations in her Elevate to Accelerate and Electrical Expansion Programs.Brenda’s work in the world is to help you break down the barriers to help you heal and get into your true zone of genius, serve the people who need your gifts, and make lots of money doing it!

Brenda B. Bailey, known as Your Revenue Accelerator, with 13 Integrative Healing certifications has operated a 7 figure business and has been an entrepreneur for 31 years. 

She’s blended her practical experience as a successful entrepreneur along with her Integrative Healing practices that allow people to have quick income transformations in her Elevate to Accelerate and SRC4U Programs.

Brenda’s work in the world is to help you break down the barriers to help you heal and get into your true zone of genius, serve the people who need your gifts, and make lots of money doing it!

Connect with Brenda B. Bailey

Here is Brenda’s main website: https://www.BrendaBBailey.com/

Download a free treat at www.FreedomThruForgiveness.com

Schedule a time to chat with Brenda and discover more about how she can help you transcend and heal your traumas, or just move on with your life and full speed ahead: www.ChatWithBrendaB.com

To experience a FREE experience with the SRC4U software: https://bit.ly/SRC4Ulive

Watch the video recording of Brenda B Bailey on YouTube

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