For many people, healing trauma can feel like an endless process—revisiting painful experiences again and again, yet still feeling stuck or seeing physical symptoms persist.
In this powerful episode of Heal Yourself, Change Your Life®, Brandy Gillmore reflects on her session with Maya, who has been experiencing ongoing skin challenges after growing up in a violent and unstable environment. As Brandy unpacks the deeper patterns at play, she reveals why repeatedly revisiting trauma alone may not lead to healing—and how it can sometimes intensify symptoms instead of resolving them.
This episode explores why the subconscious mind may hold onto traumatic memories as a form of protection, how feeling unsafe to fully let go can keep the nervous system on high alert, and why healing requires more than releasing the past—it requires programming new emotional safety and awareness.
Brandy also shares a powerful reframe that helps explain how it’s possible to move forward without anger, suppression, or repeated trauma processing—offering a way to heal without needing to relive painful experiences.
If you’ve been doing deep emotional work but still feel stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated that healing hasn’t fully arrived, this episode offers clarity, relief, and a grounded new perspective on what genuine transformation really requires.
As always, if you’d like to listen to the full live self-healing session where Brandy works directly with the volunteer—or if you’d like a deeper understanding of mind-body healing—you’ll find the links below in the resources. And if this episode touched your heart or opened your mind, please take a moment to hit the share button and share it with someone you love.
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Welcome to Heal Yourself. Change Your Life. I’m Brandy Gillmore and what I’m most known for is helping people to create radical transformations and even demonstrating the power of the mind and self-healing under medical equipment so you can see the results and my work has even been published in a medical journal because it’s truly incredible what we are all capable of when we understand our own minds at a deeper level.
So whether you’re new to this work or you’ve been studying the power of the mind for many years. I love that you are here. I love that we’re on this incredible journey together, and I look forward to sharing breakthrough information with you. That said, on this podcast, I’ll share two types of episodes.
First, self-healing episodes, where I share key insights from working with live volunteers. And the second type are where I answer questions from the audience. That said, if you’d like to volunteer or submit a question, come visit me at BrandyGillmore.com. On that note, let’s dive in.
Hello and happy, beautiful day to you. I want to add in a quick but important note to make this podcast very easy to navigate because today’s episode has a special format. Today I worked with a live volunteer. As you probably know, there are a lot of people who are now using AI to modify information online.
For that reason, we have taken an extra step to help protect our beautiful volunteer and the integrity of this work to help keep the information from being modified. And we actually love how this turned out because it provides you with even more information. This is how it works. On today’s episode, you’ll hear an overview of the person that I worked with, and I will provide you with simple but powerful breakthrough insights that helped our volunteer begin making a radical shift.
Then at the end of this short breakthrough episode, if you are ready for a deep dive, you can click in the show notes to gain access to the actual self-healing session where I worked directly with the live volunteer. This enables us to help protect the information online from being modified. While still continuing to provide you with powerful information to help bridge the gap between science and spirituality and personal empowerment, because it’s truly incredible what you are capable of when you learn to understand your mind at a deeper level.
That said, let’s dive into the simple but powerful insights that came from working with today’s volunteer. Here we go.
I just love so many things about today’s episode. Of course, the insights and our beautiful volunteer, I could just hug her. She really is beyond sweet and loving and precious, and unfortunately she is also gone through years of trauma. And she grew up in a household that had a lot of violence and upset and, so it has impacted her in her life but what I love is, I love that she’s here and she’s showing up and she’s really working on herself and doing the work, and I just think that she’s truly being amazing. And so the reason that she’s here today. Is she’s working on issues with acne and issues with her skin where her skin just won’t hold hydration anymore, and she’s so sensitive to the sun and outside.
I mean, there’s many things going on with her skin. Now. As we started diving into our session, there were issues that came up regarding. The violence that she experienced growing up. Now, one of the insights that I want to share with you from this episode is this, is that for years Maya has been working on the trauma and in some ways she’s been able to make some great changes, of course, but also in a lot of ways what has happened is she’s been stuck where she’s been going into one trauma after another, after another, after another, trying to release it all.
And what she’s noticed is it’s actually flared up some of the problems. And so that’s an insight that I want to share with you today because so often I see people who are going over and over and over into the negative, and it’s keeping them stuck, especially having a childhood that was raised in violence and whatnot, then ultimately, there’s a lot of experiences that can come up, which can keep a person going over and over and over different things. Now, the way you want to think about it is like this is that emotions get programmed in our subconscious mind. So if we have emotions there it is because they’re programmed in, and that is so key.
So for example, if somebody decides to forget how to play tennis, it doesn’t mean they’ll suddenly know how to play golf. And what I mean by that is that just because we get some information out of our mind doesn’t necessarily mean that the other pattern, like a happy pattern, is suddenly going to come in and so that’s one of the insights that I wanted to share is that. As we make changes, it is so important to program new information in your mind, so you really start feeling in a different way.
Now, another insight that was really profound and pivotal for our beautiful volunteer was this, was that part of the reason she was stuck is because her father doesn’t feel like a safe person because of the violence, et cetera, right now, this is the thing. Is that she also loved him, and so she was stuck in this place. That of course, if she lets go of the violence completely, then she might just feel connected to him to go love him, but that’s not safe. So then what needed to happen is then she needed to hold on to those memories of violence to then remind her not to connect with him and so she was stuck in that loop. It wasn’t really safe. For her to let go of the information because if she let go of the trauma completely, now all that’s left is love. And then she would feel pulled towards doing what? Connecting with him.
And so part of what I did is I helped her to shift her way of thinking where that she didn’t need to be mad at him and she also didn’t want to register that he was safe and a way to think about it. Is I gave her this, as I said, look it, think about it like hugging the lion. Like stop hugging the lion, or stop wanting to hug the lion, and what does that mean? It means we don’t have to hate a lion. We don’t have to be upset with a lion, but we also know better than to go up and just hug a lion.
It’s not safe to do so. And so basically what I gave to her was an insight. And a new way that she could feel in her mind to be able to make it safe, to move forward without all the negativity and needing to hold onto the trauma. Now it was safe to move forward. In a beautiful way. So those are the insights that I want to share with you today.
Now of course there were other insights as well and other things that we worked on. And so if you’d like to listen to the recorded session where I work with her, you can do so. The link is in the show notes. You can access it there. And if you are someone who really wants to get a deeper understanding of mind, body healing and how it works. There’s also free training that’s available in the show notes as well, so you can go ahead and access that there. And as always, I want to ask you to please do take just a quick moment to hit the share button on this episode.
Share it with somebody you love, somebody you care about, or somebody you don’t even know because the more that every single person in our world feels happy and healthy, and loved and loving. The better this world is for all of us. And so please do take just a quick moment to hit the share button and please do make a point to have a most wonderful, incredible rest of your day, and I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode.
We’ll see you there.
Thank you for listening to Heal Yourself. Change Your Life. If you’d like to become a volunteer or join our members area, you can do so by visiting BrandyGillmore.com. Also, please remember to be responsible with your health. This podcast is for inspirational purposes only. You won’t want to make any changes to your medication or to your medical care based on this podcast, nor would you ever want to avoid seeing your doctor.
Instead, it’s best to see your doctor regularly. Keep them informed on what you are doing, and you could. Make it your goal to blow their minds with what you are capable of with your mind. Thank you.
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.
If you struggle with negative thoughts, chronic pain, or chronic health issues, please continue seeing your doctor as recommended. Think of self-healing and mind-body healing as ways to partner with your doctor—keeping them informed and working as a team—so you can feel empowered in your health journey and fully embrace what’s possible through the power of your mind, emotions, and energy. Genuine change and consistent follow-through are key. Please enjoy this self-healing podcast.
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