When your healing work starts making you feel worse—or you feel stuck, or your health issues seem to increase instead of decrease—it’s not that you can’t do it. It’s often a sign that you need to change your approach.
In this live coaching session, Brandy guides Maya, a tender-hearted performer navigating years of trauma, fear, acne, hyperpigmentation, and a constant undercurrent of panic. Together they uncover a simple but profound reframe: stop trying to “hug the lion.” With compassion and clear boundaries, Maya’s energy shifts from fear and self-judgment to relief, calm, and possibility—right in the moment.
You’ll discover how working with the mind differently (not just looking/identifying more trauma) can ease inflammation, soften explosive anger, and open the door to real, visible change. Brandy also shares why telling your trauma story on repeat keeps it alive—and how to choose a future-focused story that your mind and body can truly follow.
You’ll learn:
If you’ve ever asked yourself—or ever wondered—“Why is it so hard to let go of trauma?” or “Why do I still feel stuck after doing so much healing work?” or “Why does my body keep holding on to pain even when I’ve done the inner work?”—this episode will help you understand why that happens and how to finally shift it for good.
This episode is a breath of fresh air—equal parts practical and mind-expanding. Press play to feel the shift.
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Heal Yourself, Change Your Life. My name is Brandy Gillmore, and after recovering from my own life-changing injury, it’s become my mission to share with others the same discoveries I made that changed my health and my entire life. Our minds are truly incredible. The placebo is proof of this.
Each week I will take this simple awareness to a whole new level. I’ll even coach live callers to free themselves of physical pain using only their mind, and then I’ll provide you with a combination of practical and spiritual insights that you can use to master your mind, your emotions, and your energy to help you heal your health, yourself, and your life.
Let’s begin.
[00:01:00] Hello and welcome. It is so wonderful to connect with you. I just love that you are here continuing to expand your mind, your energy, your consciousness, your healing. I just love it and I just love today’s episode for so many reasons.
You know, first and foremost, one of the things that I really love is that it highlights the awareness that so often when people are working with the mind, they can start working with their mind in a way that actually increases the problem or increases the pain or illness. And of course they don’t love that. But what I love is the awareness of the shift—when you can start to really see the shift in a different way, or working with the mind in a different way to be able to create a radical change.
And one of the [00:02:00] things that I love about today’s episode is you’ll notice how our beautiful volunteer goes from a place, from feeling a lot of angst and fear and whatnot—just mentioning that she’s feeling this way—to then shifting that and feeling the relief of that. And that’s something you’ll notice. And also, of course, noticing working with the mind in a different way.
And for me personally, one of the biggest things in healing myself was really about understanding that I had to approach the mind in a different way to get a different result. And of course, by the way, if you’ve seen me work with people under medical equipment where you can actually see the before and after, you can see that it’s not just positive thinking or mind over matter. We really can make a profound shift in our health and our lives. And it’s absolutely incredible.
And so, just a food for thought as we dive into today’s [00:03:00] episode—just wanting to remind you to find that feeling of loving who you are and loving the person you see in the mirror. The way that you show up in the world, in your authenticity, in your heart, in your truth, in your being.
Because you know, part of where we’re going is our volunteer is having some issues with acne and hyperpigmentation, but there’s just, there’s so much depth to it that the insights that come from this episode are really profound. And so that’s where we’re going as we step in with our beautiful volunteer, Maya.
Here we go.
Hello. Hello.
Hi, beautiful. It’s wonderful to connect with you.
I’m so grateful to be able to talk to you. Thank you.
And likewise. And I love your accent. It’s just beautiful.
Thank you.
You’re absolutely welcome. And what can I help you [00:04:00] with today?
Um, I have struggled with my skin my whole life, ever since I was a teenager, and also a deep sense of insecurity about the way I look—skin problems. Acne, hyperpigmentation, and all that. And for the last few years, I’ve been trying to heal this. I thought if I heal this emotionally, I would stop manifesting all these problems on the outside.
Okay.
And that did not go well because the more traumatic memories I released, the more there was. And the pain, it just kept building. And, um, I started acting from a lot of anxiety and I overused my acne medication, which ended up damaging my skin barrier. So right now my skin is not able to hold onto moisture for long.
Okay. It’s been dehydrated. I hear you. So hold on one second. So basically what you said is—and I’m gonna ask you to breathe, so let’s slow down for just one moment.
Okay.
So what you said is, you’ve been trying [00:05:00] to heal yourself through getting rid of trauma, but the more trauma that you brought up to work on healing, the more it got, and you got worse anxiety. Correct?
Yeah.
Okay, so I understand. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. I’m gonna ask you to breathe, and then you also said that everything started getting worse and worse. So instead of your face feeling better, it’s now not holding moisture and your acne’s worse, etc. etc. Correct?
Yes. And I’m also not even able to use the acne medication because acne medication causes more dehydration.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe and I’m gonna ask you to slow down just a little bit.
Okay.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Bingo. And if I ask you to notice, if I ask you—bingo, let me just look into your energy real quick. So give me just a second, okay?
Yeah, sure.
Great. Fantastic. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe now. If I said the word frantic, like a feeling of panic or frantic type of energy…
Yeah, yeah.
If I ask you how often you’ve had that feeling, what would you say?
All the time.
Uhhuh. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And if I ask you, what would happen? What would it even look like if you didn’t have that frantic panic feeling anymore? What would that even look like?
I don’t know. My life would be so different. In every possible way.
Yeah. Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Well that’s interesting, right? So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe and if I ask you to notice the part of you…
This. Okay, so this is what’s happened. Okay? So I’m gonna ask you to breathe, and if I ask you to notice, if I ask you how many traumas you feel like you worked on, how many would you say that is?
A lot.
Yes. And if I ask you now, if I ask you how much it feels like now you have a lot of trauma…
I don’t know. Um, some things have become better, but the skin stuff hasn’t shifted, so I don’t know how much more is there.
I understand. I hear you. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
[00:08:00] All right, so let’s go ahead and pause it just for a quick moment. You know, first and foremost, I just absolutely adore her and also I have so much compassion because I know what it feels like to feel like you’re going in circles—really trying to work with your mind and trying to let negativity go, or problems or fear or whatever it is—trauma go. And still unfortunately it feels like the situation is not getting better or even getting worse. And so I just understand that so much and I have so much compassion.
And what’s also great is, of course, the more that we can work with the mind in a different way, we can create that real shift. But part of the reason that I just asked her, I said, “How many traumas do you feel like you let go of?” The reason that is, is because all of the time, I’ll see people who go from one trauma to another trauma to another trauma to try to release them. And what ends up happening is they feel surrounded by trauma, even if it’s not true.
I mean, even if a lot of their life was really, really, really great—if they have that feeling that they’ve gone from one trauma to another to another, it can feel like it surrounds them. And of course, it can affect somebody’s health and life.
You know, all the time you hear me talk about the awareness of multiple personality disorder, where people with different personalities can have different illnesses in different personalities. And so even some of these personalities, they can immerse themselves in feelings of trauma—where they’re really traumatized—and in different personalities, they can have a completely different personality, a happier personality, a more outgoing personality. I mean, it’s just how much the personality can shift is incredible. And also, simultaneously, how much health issues can shift between personalities with multiple personality disorder—it’s eye-opening.
So my point is this: if you bring up a lot of negative emotion, it can affect you in so many ways, even if it’s not true, because you could end up feeling so surrounded by it. And so I’ve seen people and worked with people who felt like their entire life was trauma and they felt so enclosed by it, if you will—surrounded by it—because of bringing it up.
So my point is just really emphasizing to be careful about the way you want to work with trauma. Because so often I’ve seen that very thing happen, where a person can literally feel surrounded by hardship and problems because they’ve worked on so many of them in their own mind that it feels stuck, claustrophobic, I guess, if you will—and just surrounded by them, even if they really had mostly an incredible life.
That can still happen. And so just food for thought. As you’re working with your mind, you always want to make sure that you’re doing so in a way that makes you feel good and feel alive and feel more optimistic and open to the next level. Just kind of tuning in and making sure you’re creating the change that you really want.
And that’s ultimately where we’re going—is we’re looking at creating that real change and moving forward to an even better and better life. And so that’s where we’re going as we step back in with beautiful Maya.
Here we go.
Bingo. Okay, so basically this is what I’m seeing, right? Notice how you mentioned that the more you worked on trauma, the worse it actually became, right?
Yes.
Okay. So what I see happening is this—is that…
Bingo. Let’s do this. I’m just looking at the positioning so I see where we need to go. Mm-hmm. Let’s do this. If I ask you how much you can find the feeling of distrust of people, what would you say?
Um, when it comes to… I am always afraid people are going to judge me, the way I look. So I’m always panicking and anxious when I meet somebody, which is all the time. Right? People always look at you.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. I’m gonna ask you to breathe, and I want you to notice this feeling of panic and anxiousness. Now by the way…
If I ask you how much panic and anxiousness you had even as a child, what would you say?
Um, I grew up in a violent household, so a lot.
Uhhuh. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Okay. And so I want you to notice—if I ask you, bingo—can you give me your mom’s initial please?
A.
Okay. And can you give me your father’s initial please?
S.
Bingo. Okay. And if I ask you how often you felt panic towards your father, what would you say?
A lot. He was very violent.
Uhhuh. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. So what I want you to notice is that growing up you felt panic towards your father. Mm-hmm. And now you still feel panic towards people—but for a whole different reason. Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Now, I want you to notice also how much anger you have towards people. Can you see that?
Yeah.
Zero to 10, how high would you say that is?
It shifts. Sometimes it can go very high, 8 or 9, sometimes it’s not so much.
Okay. And when I feel they’re judging me, I get a lot angry.
If you feel like they’re judging you, you get very angry, right?
Yeah.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Now the thing that’s keeping your skin the way it is—is the part of you that’s feeling a lot of anger and feeling like the explosive anger towards people. Okay?
So what’s happening is there’s part of you—kind of like this—if I told you that I’m in panic mode and I’m panicking and I’m panicking, do you think there’s a part of me that could get angrier easier? What would you say?
Yeah. Yes.
Yes. And if I ask you how much you see that in your life, what would you say?
All the time. Very around this. Yeah. All the time, right?
Yeah. Oh, that’s interesting, right?
Mm-hmm.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Now, by the way, notice for a moment when you get panicking and then you get angry and then you get really upset—I want you to notice the part of you that also judges yourself because your dad used to get upset and angry and all of that. Can you see that?
Um, judges myself?
If I ask you how much you judge yourself when you get angry, what would you say?
Um, I don’t know. I didn’t know this.
Okay. So let’s do this. Okay?
Mm-hmm.
Give me one second.
Yes. Maybe. Yes. Because I want to act from a place of love. It’s very important to me because of the spiritual principles I follow.
Okay. So maybe I do. I do. I do, yeah.
Bingo. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And if I ask you, why do you need to panic in your life now?
I’m just… I don’t know. I’m just afraid. I’m afraid of being judged. That’s what my mind says.
You’re afraid of what?
Being judged.
If my skin is healthy, yeah. If my skin is healthy, then I don’t think I would…
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Now if I ask you, are you afraid of being judged or are you afraid of people being mean to you?
Mean to me.
Bingo. Okay. So if I ask you if somebody’s just judging you and they never say anything, but they’re judging you—or somebody’s…
If I ask you how much panic you have towards that—if somebody’s judging you but they never say anything—how much panic do you have?
A lot, because I’m very sensitive, so I feel the energy and…
Okay. So wait a sec. I hear you. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe, but I want you to notice—if I ask you how much you’re afraid they’re going to then be mean to you, what would you say?
I don’t know. I am afraid even if they don’t say anything, people can behave in ways that are mean.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Yes. And a look is enough. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And bingo. So I want you to notice a fundamental difference right now. So notice how you’re experiencing this in your day-to-day—where you’re afraid of people judging you and etc. You can see that, right?
Yeah.
And the panic, right?
Yeah.
So notice for a moment, this is the very thing that I talk about all of the time, is that so often people are really trying to heal their past trauma and all of these things—but the emotional triggers are even happening in their life all around them, in their day-to-day life. Does that make sense?
Yes. Totally. Totally.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Bingo. And if I ask you to also notice the part of you who also—if we do look at the past though—I want you to notice the part of you that also has extreme anger towards your dad. Can you see that?
A lot. A lot. A lot.
Yep. A lot. I love your awareness. I love your awareness. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Okay. And if I ask you how much your dad had extreme anger towards his dad, what would you say?
I think he did. He would say his dad was violent towards his mother, which is a pattern he also replicated. So…
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Okay. So if I ask you, when was the last time you talked to your dad?
I don’t know, many months before. I don’t talk to him.
Mm-hmm. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Yeah.
And if I ask you…
Bingo. If I ask you—do you think your dad wants to have that behavior?
The violent streak? Uhhuh. No, he doesn’t. He has many psychiatric issues, though. I feel a lot of…
Wait a sec. Yep. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Okay. And that doesn’t mean to go around him—that doesn’t mean go around him at all. It’s kind of like this, by the way.
So I want you to think about what it looks like to have compassion for him. Like he grew up in a violent family, right?
Yeah.
And he’s affected by it, right?
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
And then you grew up in a violent family, and now you’ve been affected by it, right?
Mm-hmm.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Now, if I ask you—think about it in this way. If I ask you, would you go up and just hug a lion right now?
No.
Right?
No.
So you wouldn’t hug a lion, right?
No, I wouldn’t.
Okay. If I ask you, are you angry at the lion?
No.
No. You’re not angry with a lion, and you also wouldn’t hug a lion, right?
Yeah, I’ve been trying to hug the lion here.
Exactly. So watch this. Exactly. Notice the part of you that keeps wanting to reconnect with your dad, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
I don’t do it though.
Yep. But you’ve wanted to, right?
Yeah.
Okay. So the problem is, is this. Zero to 10, how much have you wanted to go give your dad a hug and go reconnect with your dad?
I do want. I do want to.
Zero to 10?
I don’t know. Nine or something.
Nine. And if I ask you—is he physically safe to reconnect with?
Um, he won’t hit me, but emotionally he is very unsafe. He is not safe. He might sabotage other things in my life. He is very emotionally volatile.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Now, has he made progress?
No, he hasn’t.
He hasn’t. Okay. And did he hit you growing up?
He never hit me. It was all towards my mom. If I did something which dismisses him, he would hit my mom. So…
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you…
I was always afraid.
Yeah. Okay. So if something happened, he would hit your mom, right?
Yeah. So I was always afraid to anger him because I was afraid he would… I would stay up at night, worried he might do something to my mom. I was that afraid.
Uhhuh. I understand. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
So if I ask you, are you going to hug a lion? Yes or no?
No.
No, I have not.
Okay. So now, if a lion is trained to be very, very, very, very, very nice—and it changes into a cat, it transforms into a kitten—would you be willing to pet it then?
Yes.
Yes. But for now, you don’t need to be mad at a lion. You don’t need to be angry. But you also don’t need to keep trying to hug the lion if the lion is not yet safe. Correct?
Yes.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Now, if you really felt this way towards your dad—where you could have compassion, but you just put in your mind that you said, look it, I have compassion and I understand and I don’t need to be angry and I don’t need to be hurt and I can move on from this—and I just need to stop wanting to hug the lion right now.
Unless he transforms into a kitten, I’m not going to pet the lion. Does that make sense?
Yes.
Great. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And if I ask you, do you feel like it’s safer now to let go of the anger?
Yeah. Yeah. A little bit longer. And I was trying to do this via all the trauma release. I thought I would release all the trauma, then the anger would go away.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Notice for a moment—if I ask you where your anger is right now, what would you say?
I’m not feeling any right now.
You notice how big of a shift that is?
Yeah.
Okay. So I’m thinking of your lion analogy, so it’s funny in my mind.
Yes. So notice you don’t… it works. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Now my point is, is that the part of you who continues to keep going back and wanting to connect and wanting to connect—the part of you that’s wanted to connect with him—needs to just really understand that now isn’t the time. And hopefully he changes, and hopefully he really, really changes. But right now, until he really changes into a kitten—or really, and it’s up to him—but for you to be able to have your life moving forward is good, is important. Right?
Yeah.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And if I ask you how much the feeling of panic went down, what would you say?
I’m feeling a lot of calm right now.
Exactly. Yeah. Now by the way, imagine if I had this feeling inside of me that wanted to hug a lion—do you think I might feel panic?
Oh God, yes. I never saw it this way. Yes, yes.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
[00:27:00] All right, so let’s go ahead and pause it just for a quick moment. You know, first and foremost, I just love her. I just absolutely adore her heart. She’s sweet. And I also love this insight right here and this shift—where you notice she’s talking about feeling a radical shift of just release and relief.
And what I love about this insight is that so often we can have mind programming where it is really creating a problem in and of itself by just being there. It can create the problem.
This is what I mean—to give you an example. In my own story, after the events of 9/11, I had this feeling subconsciously of wanting to go die for others. It had been a pattern that I grew up with—that you were supposed to, you know, die for others. And it was just this deeply ingrained thought process and thought pattern and emotional pattern.
And then of course, the other part of my mind didn’t want to die. And so it was like this feeling of fear at a deeper level in my subconscious mind. Now, I had suppressed it so much I didn’t even realize it was there.
And my point is, from this, when part of the mind wants to do something and then the other part of the mind doesn’t want to do something—it can create an additional state of fear at a deeper level.
And so part of what I did with her mind then in this case is I gave her the idea of, you know, connecting with a lion—hugging a lion, so to speak. And so I helped her mind to not want to go in that direction for now. And of course, I said unless the lion turns into a kitten—in which case there’s a transformation. Unless there is safety. Unless there’s a feeling of feeling safe—then not wanting to get too close and not needing to fear, but just being aware.
And so ultimately that’s what we want to do—is we want to create a shift in the mind that really helps us to not need to fear something, but to instead have a logical awareness of things, even when there’s things that aren’t good for us. That we have a logical awareness of it without a fear.
You know, for example, we don’t want to fear the ocean or we don’t want to fear the freeway—the highway of cars—just because it’s there. We want to know how to proceed forward with it in a way that works harmoniously. And so programming the mind in that direction is of course key.
And so that’s where we’re going as we step back in with our beautiful volunteer Maya.
Here we go.
And I am gonna ask you—take in the awareness. The moral of the story is: don’t hug a lion. I mean, come on.
Yes.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. Bingo. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
And I want you to think about your life moving forward. Now, as I ask you to picture your life moving forward and creating a really great life for yourself—if I ask you how much more your mind can start to see how that’s possible…
Yes. I am. I’ve been actually keeping myself stuck because of this skin problem.
Bingo.
If I can get over this… I am training to be a performing artist. So because of this issue, I’ve been sabotaging my career opportunities, everything.
Okay. So I love your awareness. I love your awareness. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. Give me one second.
And if I ask you to notice—zero to 10—how much there’s a part of you deep inside who really, really loves your dad, what would you say?
My father? A lot. A lot.
Yeah. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. So the thing of it is, it can feel really hard when you really, really, really love somebody—and so you want to connect, want to connect, want to connect, and really, really want to connect. But simultaneously, you also know that person is not good for you. Does that make sense?
Yeah. So I have replicated the same in all romantic relationships.
Bingo. So you just—you replicated the same thing in all of your romantic relationships, right?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe and I love your awareness. And so the thing of it is, is if I ask you…
Bingo. So this is gonna sound really, um…
If I ask you to notice the part of you that even kind of doesn’t want to be in a relationship because of your face and whatnot—can you see that?
Yeah. Always. In fact, I’ve never been in one. I did and then I ran away, or the person is not right. So I spend one or two years crying about it, but I wouldn’t say yes to them. So it’s been that way.
Uhhuh. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And if I ask you—zero to 10—how much you feel like it’s your fault sometimes that your mother got hit, what would you say?
Yeah. Always. I was afraid.
Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. If I ask you—zero to 10—how much you feel like it’s your fault, what would you say?
10.
Do you know how ridiculous that is? Do you know how freaking ridiculous that is? I’m just… I mean, I’m just saying. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Okay. Thank you for letting me push a little bit and be silly. Okay. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. I am gonna—I am gonna comment on that again—and I’m gonna say: Do you know how ridiculous that is?
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
Mm-hmm.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
[Laughter] Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And… bingo. So you could go ahead and hold on to the guilt if you want. But I’m just gonna say: that’s ridiculous. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Because you have been doing that, right?
Yes.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And I’m gonna say it again: it’s ridiculous.
[Laughs] Yes.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And I want you to take in the feeling of letting go of the guilt. I want you to think about how innocent you were, how much you were just trying to keep your mom safe, and how sweet and precious your heart is. Can you see that?
Yeah.
So I’m gonna ask you to breathe.
And I’m going to ask you to take in the feeling of that little girl inside of you—just wanting to help, trying to help. She’s not guilty. She’s a sweetheart. That sweet little girl is lovable and wonderful and just doing her best. Can you see her?
Yes.
Beautiful. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. And take in that feeling of love and safety and compassion and letting that little girl know—she didn’t do anything wrong. Okay?
Okay.
Beautiful. So I’m gonna ask you to breathe. Bingo. And if I ask you how your skin feels right now—your face—what would you say?
I feel a bit of tingling and it’s… I don’t know. It feels better.
Mm-hmm. Beautiful. So I’m going to ask you to breathe and just keep feeling that feeling of peace, of calm, of letting go. Of knowing that you are safe to love, that you’re not guilty, and that you deserve to feel good. Can you do that?
Yes.
Good. So I’m going to ask you to breathe, and take in that feeling.
And I want you to take in that vision of yourself performing, and feeling confident in your skin. Feeling free. Feeling lit up with love and joy and peace in your being. And I want you to imagine that becoming your new reality. Can you see it?
Yes.
Beautiful. So I’m going to ask you to breathe, and just imagine that your mind, your energy, and your emotions are aligning with this new vision. That it’s becoming real, that it’s becoming your truth, and that you’re letting go of the old patterns—guilt, panic, fear, trauma—and stepping into a new energy.
Yes.
Beautiful. And one last question—if I ask you how you feel in your energy right now, what would you say?
I feel so much peace. I can’t even believe it. I’m calm. I feel light.
That’s beautiful. That’s what it’s about—creating real change from the inside out. And you did that. So great job. Truly. Just absolutely beautiful. So I want to say thank you for being you. For your heart. For your openness. For your willingness. You’re just so wonderful.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
You’re so welcome, beautiful. And thank you.
[00:47:00] All right. So that concludes today’s session with beautiful Maya. And I have to say, I just love this episode because it really highlights something that is so important to recognize—especially if you’ve been on your healing journey for a while.
So often, people can get stuck in this loop of trying to heal trauma, but in doing so, they can actually activate more of the emotions and energy of trauma. And if not done carefully, they can become immersed in that energy. And that is what begins to affect the body and the healing process.
And of course, that doesn’t mean don’t work on things. Of course not. But it’s really about having a new awareness of how you approach it. You want to shift your energy and your emotions into something higher—not just process and process and process and stay stuck in the lower energy of it. That’s what creates the transformational change.
And you could really feel that with Maya. You could feel how much her energy shifted. Her emotions shifted. Her entire being moved into a new place. And that is the foundation for real, lasting change. I just love it.
And I want to invite you to do the same. To really reflect on where you might be caught in old patterns of fear or guilt or trauma—and not from a place of judgment, but from a place of awareness. From a place of love. From a place of empowerment. Because when you can really look at those patterns and say, “Okay, I see you. And now I choose something different,” that’s where your power lies.
That’s when you really start to step into the life you were meant to live. That’s when healing begins to unfold in ways you may not even have imagined possible.
So I want to thank you as always for being here. For being on this journey. For showing up for yourself. You are truly incredible.
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And of course, if you’d like to dive deeper into this work, you can always check out the free resources and trainings at brandygillmore.com. They’re designed to support you in creating profound transformation in your health, your energy, and your life.
So I want to send you so much love. Have an incredible rest of your day—and I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode of Heal Yourself, Change Your Life.
With love,
Brandy
IMPORTANT NOTE: We understand that some may believe mind-body healing is impossible. Therefore, if you would like to see images of individuals using their minds to relieve pain, you can check out this medical journal. It includes images from some of Brandy's case studies. If you want to learn how to use your mind to heal yourself, you can check out the training on Brandy's website. Each week, Brandy publishes a volunteer episode where she coaches a volunteer to heal themselves using their own mind. In addition, Brandy shares a quick IQ episode (Insights and Questions) where she answers listener questions or delves deeper into insights on working with the mind for healing. This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for psychiatric or medical care.
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