Latest / The Trauma Therapist / Episode 776: How A Mother and Daughter Joined to Heal Their Past with Kimberly Maize MSW and Savannah Woodard
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- 0:10Or welcome back to the Trauma Therapist Podcast. My name is Gamiferson. My
- 0:14mission is to help trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be human,
- 0:19to be real, not just a clinician. I'm a big believer in who
- 0:23we are is more important than what we know, and this requires cultivating authenticity,
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- 0:37the Trauma Therapist Project dot com. Let's get started. Five four, three
- 0:44two and one. Our folks, welcome back to the podcast. Very excited.
- 0:48That was my guest today. Kimberly Mays and Savannah Woodward. Kimberly and
- 0:53Savannah, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, welcome So. Kimberly Mays
- 0:58and Savannah Woodward are a mother daughter powerhouse duo who co founded One Planet Healing,
- 1:04a grassroots trauma survivor and woman own organization focused on minimizing the retraumatization of
- 1:11people impacted by trauma. Their focus is on the human rights and social justice
- 1:15issues created by institutional betrayal, changing the current paradigm of seeking people in their
- 1:21recovery and providing opportunities for people to learn in depth perspectives of trauma resolution.
- 1:27Kimberly utilized for decades of introspection during her recovery from the associative identity disorder,
- 1:34working with hundreds of people impacted by trauma, and implementing research and insights from
- 1:38wisdom keepers worldwide, and developing the life saving trauma responses to model. Savannah
- 1:44is the second generation trauma specialist and a Moving the Human Spirit certified Trauma Informed
- 1:49Coach. Savannah has a decade of experience, invest knowledge and working with people
- 1:55impacted by trauma and is most passionate about helping utilizing your experiences of recovery,
- 2:00been working with families and healing intergenerational or transgenerational trumps. Enoufa there, Welcome
- 2:08to the podcast. Thank you so much. So all right, before we
- 2:14go in, your share with the listeners where you're from originally and where you
- 2:17both are currently. We're both from southern California originally. I moved to Iowa
- 2:27in the early nineties to provide a safer and some distance from my family of
- 2:37origin and to get her at a safer place to be than where our hometown
- 2:42is pretty dangerous and there was a university in the town that we moved to,
- 2:47and so that's where we ended up. Now we're in Wisconsin. After
- 2:53you know, a cup a decade or so of going different places, we've
- 2:59landed in the Midwest. So Savannah, let me ask you, how did
- 3:07this interest in what you're doing start for you? Well, to be honest,
- 3:15I feel like I was kind of born into it, you know,
- 3:16born into a really traumatizing environment, and eventually as I got older, being
- 3:23surrounded by social workers. And you know, my mom received a diagnosis when
- 3:30I was thirteen, a trauma informed diagnosis that really changed our lives. And
- 3:36I think that my true wake up call is too, why trauma formed care
- 3:39and trauma specific education is so important is when I had my own children,
- 3:44and I really recognized how my childhood trauma affected how I parented and how I
- 3:49showed up for them. And so that's what really led to me diving deep
- 3:53is to not only improve my own experience as a parent, but also help
- 3:57other parents, you know, not struggle so much. So kimberly share with
- 4:01the listeners who might not have listened in on our first episode, but give
- 4:08us, give us a thumbnail sketch of your experience. What led you to
- 4:13this field. Well, like Savannah said, I was definitely born into it.
- 4:17I have to be honest. I didn't have the capacity at the time
- 4:25to make any grounded, insightful decisions about what I wanted to do with my
- 4:30life. I honestly went to school because school was very easy for me.
- 4:39I could basically do nothing and get a's and fall apart inside, which is
- 4:45what I was doing. I ended up going into social work because I,
- 4:54like I said, I wanted to be able to continue going to school and
- 5:00at financial aid because I was literally, you know, I was extremely dissociative
- 5:04and fragmented, and I didn't get I was in school from the early nineties
- 5:14and then I went I ended up dropping out of graduate school, but went
- 5:17back later after I had some recovery, So that was in two thousand or
- 5:23nineteen ninety nine. I didn't get my my what we consider a trauma informed
- 5:28as much as you could at the time diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder until two
- 5:34thousand and three, So I was very fragmented and dissociating. What age were
- 5:43you at that point? Thirty three? Okay, So how did you,
- 5:48how were you managing during prior to that? During that time, not very
- 5:56well, as you know, her child can contest. I, like I
- 6:01said, I mean I was in and out of the psychiatric hospital, suicidal
- 6:06ideation, attempts, self harm, thirty forty hospitalizations. I was on security
- 6:14disability, and I honestly, you know, some people say that they don't
- 6:19remember their childhood. I honestly don't remember probably eighty five percent of my entire
- 6:25life, because that's the severity of my dissociation. Honestly, I had enough
- 6:31intellect, which is a privilege. I think, you know, I had
- 6:34enough intellect to be able to succeed, you know, like a parent competency,
- 6:41like Marshall and Hanson. I looked different than I was because I was
- 6:46able to succeed in school while still being d id because I could front,
- 6:55I could show up and I was able to do very well, and I
- 6:59got fintal aid. Back then, single mothers got a lot of money,
- 7:03and so I lived in government housing and I barely. I didn't make it
- 7:10very well. By the time I had my diagnosis, I had completely self
- 7:17functioning. I was not working, was not going to school. I was
- 7:21you know, probably the one of the closest times to ending my life when
- 7:27my my psychiatrist got trauma informed. He went and trained with doctor Colin Ross
- 7:34at Timberlawn in Texas. And getting the ID diagnoses then is not like now
- 7:42where it seems to be much more prevalent of a diagnosis. Then you didn't
- 7:46get that diagnosis, and so for him, and he had been my psychiatrist
- 7:50for ten years, so he knew me. And you know, he actually
- 7:55apologized to me later and said, I'm sorry this diagnosed you with all those
- 7:59diagnosed ses. I just didn't know. I wasn't confident enough in my ability
- 8:03to diagnose trauma to give you the diagnosis that I felt you deserved. But
- 8:09now it's so blaringly off it obvious, and that diagnosis literally changed our lives
- 8:15and saved my life because I finally didn't see myself as a mentally ill person
- 8:20anymore. I was like, oh, now I see what you're telling me,
- 8:24and that makes more sense. That's the only diagnosis I ever resonated with,
- 8:30and I had twenty five different diagnoses during my years in the mental health
- 8:33system. Why we're here, Yeah, first of all, I mean appreciate
- 8:41both of you coming on here and sharing this. This is uh, I
- 8:46would imagine, not very easy to share. To talk about all this stuff,
- 8:50talk about your life like this, I think it takes a lot of
- 8:52courage. And I really appreciate and commend you for the work you're doing,
- 8:58and I want to get into the great work you're doing, but I also
- 9:03want to set the stage here. So, Kimberly, you said you grew
- 9:07up in a I guess chaotic would be an understated statement. Kaok life,
- 9:13traumatizing life, childhood understatement, Yes, yes, my trauma. Okay,
- 9:22yeah, it's extreme. Now, Savannah, you so was it both of
- 9:31you? Did you do have siblings? Savannah, I'm the only child me?
- 9:35Okay, okay, So your mother raised you? To what degree were
- 9:43you aware of what was going on? How did you interpret what was what
- 9:48was going on? You know, I think that when I was really young,
- 9:52it was so normalized that it was just kind of what it was,
- 9:56and it was just what I dealt with daily, and and I just,
- 10:01yeah, I was just kind of in that childlife perspective of my mom of
- 10:05my situation. It wasn't until you know, maybe ten eleven twelve when I
- 10:09started realizing that I was different than other people that you know, my mom
- 10:13was different, my home was different, and you know, to be perfectly
- 10:20honest, I don't think I truly understood the severity of my trauma until my
- 10:24mid to late twenties, when I really was able to slow down do my
- 10:28own work process. There was a little bit more space in my life to
- 10:31be able to look inward and to work on myself. I started to do
- 10:37more yoga and meditation, doing more introspection, and I really became hyper aware
- 10:45of how my trauma impacted my behavior. And again, like I said,
- 10:48when my children were born. I was twenty five and twenty six when my
- 10:52two sons were born. And you know, I know a lot of parents
- 10:58out there kind of feel this way too, that they are a direct reflection
- 11:01of who you are and what you've been through, your beliefs, your values,
- 11:05your habits. And it was like having two little mirrors just running around.
- 11:09And then once I lost my first husband in twenty nineteen, everything changed.
- 11:15I recognized how I had recreated my role, my childhood role of care
- 11:20grit giver onto my husband, how that affected me, my relationship with my
- 11:26mom, my relationship with my kids, and That's really when I was like,
- 11:30trauma is now everything to me. I understand my life and most of
- 11:35the people around me. And that's when things really changed. So the last
- 11:37four years, I've just taken a deep dive. Well and she and you
- 11:43know her her childhood was you know, is my mom going to take her
- 11:48life? Is my mom? My mom's going to the hospital again? My
- 11:52mom? You know, her entire life revolved around me and getting my met.
- 12:00She was very much secondary and I was so motivated by trauma. You
- 12:07know, sometimes when people's trauma is so big, they don't see anyone else,
- 12:11including their children. Which is why we're here again, is to help
- 12:18We want to minimize that and help people to recognize that all trauma motivated behaviors
- 12:24are understandable reactions to their experiences and it's okay to not be ashamed that your
- 12:35parenting is affecting your children. I mean, this is what our podcast is
- 12:37about. A New Generation podcast is us telling about how we had to take
- 12:45radical responsibility to heal the transgenerational intergenerational trauma. And that's a hard look at
- 12:54my impact her as a parent, and her on her children, and my
- 13:01generational trauma and so her role as my caretaker was so recreated in her relationships.
- 13:09I think it wasn't until, like she said, her first husband took
- 13:13his life that she really realized, Wait a minute, this role was created
- 13:18by my mom. Absolutely. So is ther point, Savannah, where you
- 13:28went took off when to live quote unquote live your life? What point was
- 13:33that? When did you guys kind of separate? Not very well? We
- 13:39were very very unmatched. Yeah, so it's kind of you know, been
- 13:41touch and go for many years. There's been times throughout my life where I've
- 13:46tried to distance, try to do my own work, and then come with
- 13:48the intention of coming back to my family system more well adjusted. And I
- 13:52was continually being retraumatized by different parts of my life that it was nearly impossible
- 13:58to be able to do that work. You know. I think that I
- 14:03first tried to do that when I was sixteen or seventeen. I moved out
- 14:07of my mom's house into my grandparents' house, and then I moved into my
- 14:11own apartment before I was eighteen. And there were a few years there while
- 14:16I was trying to sober up from substances, I was trying to find my
- 14:20autonomy, and I feel like I succeeded to do so. You know,
- 14:24it kind of wasn' layers over the years, and so I think that was
- 14:26the first layer in me saying, Okay, I'm allowed to kind of step
- 14:30away from my mom. My mom had started to prove to me that she
- 14:33was well enough, and this was obvious, maybe not obvious, but obvious
- 14:37to me now very subconscious that I was trying to pull away. And there
- 14:41have been many times throughout my life where we've taken space, We've gone months
- 14:46at a time. But one of the most impactful boundaries that I've asserted in
- 14:52my life was what we called the Divide. We talk about it on our
- 14:56podcast quite a bit, and it was a eighteen month no con tapped where
- 15:01my mom and I had no contact for eighteen months and my sole intention was
- 15:05to try to find autonomy after decades of enmeshment. You named it the Divide.
- 15:11Yes, yes, later after we came back, because we both have
- 15:16talked about it and agreed at the time, the extent of the trauma that
- 15:20caused the incidents that led up to the divide were so extreme that both of
- 15:28us thought we'd never talk to each other again. I literally thought I'd never
- 15:31talk to my daughter or see my grands again. Yeah, so okay,
- 15:35let's just want to pause here for a moment to thank our sponsors. We're
- 15:39talking with Kimberly Mays and Savannah Woodward of One Planet Healing. We'll be back
- 15:48in a couple of seconds. Hang on here, folks. All right,
- 15:54So how what brought you back? How did that event happened? Well,
- 16:07there was something going on in my personal life that led to us having to
- 16:11have conversations. Just for legal reasons. I had to ask her a couple
- 16:15of questions to be able to get through on a lawsuit that I'd been enduring.
- 16:19And that was the first practical reason as to why we'd reconnected. I
- 16:25had already been considering wanting to reconnect because we had had some communication the last
- 16:33couple of months of our no contact around our perspective what we thought had happened.
- 16:38It was a first attempt at repair, and because that had been going
- 16:42successful, we were able to communicate in a way that we hadn't before.
- 16:45Although it was via email, there was definitely a shift in the relationship dynamic
- 16:51and communication that was very clear to me, And so I was already considering
- 16:56reconnecting, and then this very terrible situation kind of brought us back together.
- 17:00But it was meant to be, I feel. And so after we were
- 17:06able to communicate about something that was so difficult, I was kind of like,
- 17:10well, okay, we got through that, maybe we could talk about
- 17:11other difficult things. And that was just kind of the door opening to many
- 17:18many conversations on our perspective on why it had been the way that it had
- 17:22been, what we needed to do, you know, taking radical self being,
- 17:29radically self aware, taking radical self responsibility of me as a daughter,
- 17:33this is how I contributed. You as a mom, this is how you
- 17:36contributed. We were able to really hold space for one another, validate one
- 17:40another, and really got through some of those really difficult conversations that we had
- 17:45been avoiding for decades. And it's quite pause a second here, sure,
- 17:48so I don't want to skip over that, because that in and of itself
- 17:52is incredible. I mean that you have the ability wherewithal the awareness to you
- 18:00know, look at the roles each of you quote unquote played in this.
- 18:07I'm curious, Kimberlyeve. I mean, this is you know, I just
- 18:11can't imagine what you've gone through and and how are you doing now? Fantastic?
- 18:21That amazing ever been? Yeah, I mean it's it's I actually sometimes
- 18:27say to myself, Wow, I can't believe who you are now. I
- 18:33mean, living as a person who had such severe complex trauma, what I've
- 18:40been through, having that diagnosis, fully integrating that diagnosis, which probably took
- 18:45about two decades. The you know, the truth of the matter is is
- 18:52that I had to look at what needs childhood needs I was trying to get
- 18:57met through my daughter that didn't belong to her, and that was a physical
- 19:03feeling I could feel inside. And because I got none of my needs met
- 19:07from my mom or family of origin, I overly enmeshed and tried to overly
- 19:15attach with her, and it was suffocating her and it was starting to come
- 19:19out, you know, on the grandkids. And even though the divide was
- 19:26the most painful thing I ever had been through, because I thought I was
- 19:30gonna lose the only family I had, it had to happen because I had
- 19:36to. I had to become an individual person by myself that didn't have these
- 19:45attachment wounded attachment issues with my daughter. And because I did that, I'm
- 19:52you know, I became a whole individualized person that can meet my own needs.
- 19:57What has allowed you or helped you to gain this type of awareness the
- 20:03trauma response syndrome model, the model that I created to help with trauma resolution
- 20:12to your own model, your own development of this model, How did you
- 20:17develop that? What helped you? Pardon me to at some point you know,
- 20:25you've got to stand back, be able to stand back and look at
- 20:30what has gone on? What enabled you to do that initially? So what
- 20:33I able to do that initially has become is because I became extremely hyper focused
- 20:41on trauma and learning about trauma. So I started reading all the Bessel vander
- 20:45Koch's research in the early two thousands, and you know, reading about childhood
- 20:52developmental disorder, which is what he's you know, trying to put in the
- 20:56DSM, and that research wasn't published yet. I took a really deep dive
- 21:04into you know, doctor Colin Ross's work, Alice Miller, you know Patrick
- 21:11Carnes with sex addiction, those kinds of things. I went in patient on
- 21:17a trauma unit for thirty days that don't it doesn't exist anymore because of course
- 21:23they lose funding. But that really opened my eyes and helped me to understand.
- 21:27I I literally once although I didn't really remember once, once it was
- 21:34put in a trauma paradigm, what was going on with me, I did
- 21:44begin to I stepped back and started to witness why was I doing what I
- 21:51was doing? Because because it took probably about three years of very very intense
- 21:57trauma therapy before I could was even integrated enough to be able to function.
- 22:03So you know, it took five years before I was okay enough to be
- 22:10able to like take a step back, take radical responsibility, be able to
- 22:21the biggest thing was to watch myself and think what why was I doing what
- 22:27I was doing? And it came back down to trauma based needs and understanding
- 22:37the concepts that have been created into this model when they were really tiny and
- 22:42and them growing and taking you know, concepts from theories and then applying trauma
- 22:49to them and making it bigger because you know, a lot of people don't
- 22:56understand the intricacies of trauma trauma motivated behaviors, and that's what I started to
- 23:03recognize a witness. But of course the number one thing is I stopped engaging
- 23:08in the trauma motivated behaviors. I stopped engaging in men with men and no
- 23:18drugs and alcohol. You know, I became. I stopped retraumatizing myself every
- 23:23day, my own behaviors. That's the key. Probably, how did one
- 23:30planet healing start? How did you folks come about let's let's do this.
- 23:37Probably it started with the extreme. You know, we're not anti psychiatry.
- 23:45We are pro informed, consent, pro informed. What I call pro informed
- 23:51diagnosing is that we need to stop the medicalizing and pathologizing of humans. That's
- 24:00the main thing is that when you spent twenty five years in a mental health
- 24:06system where you're misdiagnosed and wrongly medicated, and it nearly took my life and
- 24:14that's still happening, that's what needs to stop. I was not bipolar.
- 24:19I had four different personality disorder diagnoses. None of them were correct. I
- 24:25had, like I said, I had psychosis. Every single thing that I
- 24:30experienced was from trauma and nobody understood it, and so then they wrongly medicated
- 24:37me. I was on twelve or fourteen psychiatric medications at one time. That
- 24:42has to stop. We need to stop. There's no reason for that.
- 24:48Want to get to like Savannah, did you sit down and say let's start
- 24:53this program, this project. How did that come about? You know,
- 25:00I think, you know, we I don't know if it was that concrete,
- 25:06but after talking about our life story, you know, at first your
- 25:10reaction to our story of like, wow, I can't believe that this is
- 25:14happening. We kind of had that same aha that once I became an adult,
- 25:18we sat down and really started talking about the stories we had experienced,
- 25:22what we had been through, what we were seeing. You know, we
- 25:25were assisting people in recovery at the time, hearing their stories. But you
- 25:30know, I think what really pushed me over the edge was losing my first
- 25:34husband to malpractice and really seeing the same experience that I had as a child.
- 25:42You know, I witnessed all of this as a child, but because
- 25:45they had that childlike perspective, of course, I didn't totally understand the impact.
- 25:49But then once I saw it play out, you know, at almost
- 25:52thirty years old, and really recognized, wow, this impacted my husband's family,
- 25:57my family, my children. To really just see it all play out
- 26:03as an adult and feel powerless to that, I really tapped into the millions
- 26:08of people out there that feel powerless to the system and they don't have the
- 26:14resources or the wherewithal to be able to advocate for themselves, stand up for
- 26:18themselves. And I don't know how else to say it. Something inside of
- 26:22me came alive. I was born when that happened, where I was like,
- 26:26this is my purpose. That's why this happened to me. I got
- 26:29to tell everyone I know that there's a different way if we could look at
- 26:33it in a more trauma informed way of how trauma impacts our body, our
- 26:37nervous system, our thinking, our belief systems, our behavior, our behaviors,
- 26:41and really have the opportunity to be trained in that. I honestly feel
- 26:47that thousands of people and thousands of lives would be saved and suicides would be
- 26:51prevented. So how did one planet healing? How did you start that?
- 26:56Would you say, Mom, we got to do this, or Kimberly,
- 26:59did you say, so are we going to do this? It's been like
- 27:02percolating for the last decade, like probably you know, I was very psych
- 27:12psych injured from medication withdrawal, and so I was very sick for a long
- 27:19time, and I thought, well, I'm never talking about trauma again because
- 27:26I was you know, a lot had happened. But then, you know,
- 27:30as our life experience started to grow together and I started working with people
- 27:37again, and then, you know, because really the concept of one Planet
- 27:42Healing started in like twenty and fourteen, and it just has now finally now
- 27:49that we've gone through what we needed to go through, because we were too
- 27:56in mesh to be able to actually make anything happen, and as far as
- 28:00an organization, and so it had to be this divide for now we've come
- 28:07back together. Now we live twenty minutes from each other, and now is
- 28:10when we're like, we know exactly what our message is and what needs to
- 28:15happen and how and why. And so now we're finally in the last year
- 28:22fully bringing one Plant healing to the forefront after about a decade. And we
- 28:27definitely did have a conversation after we lost Curtis of this cannot happen again.
- 28:33I think that was the final straw. Once we lost him, we were
- 28:37like, there's no more messing around. It doesn't matter if we have a
- 28:40bad day or not. We're pushing through. We got to get this message
- 28:42out. And as soon as we started talking about it, the response that
- 28:45we have from people that we work with people who listen to our podcast.
- 28:49It's infectious, and now we don't have a choice. We have to do
- 28:52the same. It's like interject here, just to be clear. What happened
- 28:59with your your past husband was he was fell victim to the system in a
- 29:06sense, yes, and took his own life. Yes? Okay. So
- 29:11what is the goal over the mission of One Planet Healing to minimize the re
- 29:18traumatization of those impacted by trauma? And we do that by providing alternative perspectives
- 29:26of working with people other than the medical and diagnostic approach viewing people rather,
- 29:33so our perspective is that people were not saying there's no such thing as mental
- 29:38illness. We'd never say that. I've spent way too much time working in
- 29:41the mental health system to say that. But people who have histories of complex
- 29:47trauma have different experiences, and we need to be seen as one hundred percent
- 29:55having understandable reactions to what we're and people need to get educated on trauma so
- 30:04they can recognize all of this is trauma. I call it trauma response syndrome.
- 30:11All these diagnoses people are getting, they're they're they're not correct. What
- 30:18the disconnect is currently is okay, I see that you have this horrible complex
- 30:22trauma and you're bipolar. That's the disconnect. No, they're not bipolar.
- 30:29They these are all trauma responses. And so we want to educate people.
- 30:33We call one of our goals is to minimize the power differentiation that inherently happens
- 30:40in healing spaces. So we really change our language to to to decrease that,
- 30:47to put the power back in the hands of the people who are being
- 30:52served. Essentially, so you know we don't we are educators. We're educating
- 30:57people on trauma. Are you know that? That's what we do, and
- 31:03we want to train other people to be able to do that so that the
- 31:08people who need the help could take that information and utilize it in their own
- 31:15lives. And so our mission is to train as many people as we can
- 31:22in this perspective to help more people. So are you are you training uh
- 31:30anyone? Education, educators, therapists, coaches, uh survivors, So anyone
- 31:37can come to your site and get the education. And how are these uh
- 31:42education with yours delivered? Are these is everything online? Yes? Everything will
- 31:48be online right now? You know. The there will be school teachable,
- 31:56there's stuff on teachable, but we wanted we would like to be able to
- 32:00have opportunities to train in person as much as possible because that's much more dynamic.
- 32:07But we hold courses that we trainings, webinars, those kinds of things
- 32:13so that people can see online to maybe eventually come to us to train in
- 32:17person. Our main what we would like the most is that people who have
- 32:23lived experience who are called to assist others and are doing their inner work.
- 32:30That's the ideal trauma specialists. In my perspective, we want any so we
- 32:37call therapists, counselors, those kinds of things. We call those people.
- 32:42Anyone who assists in the recovery of others would benefit from training in the trauma
- 32:49response INDO a model under One Planet healing. So we want to change that
- 32:53language to move away from anything that's treatment oriented, because people who who are
- 33:00drawn to us, you know, they want a different language, they want
- 33:04a different paradigm, they want a different perspective, and that's what we offer.
- 33:08I mean, for me, what's very powerful about what you both are
- 33:14doing is your relationship naturally and your ability to speak from different positions in that
- 33:24relationship. That's very unique and very powerful, and the fact that you know
- 33:30you had this divide and what caused that, and your ability to come back
- 33:37and utilize a different lens through which to look at your relationship and then to
- 33:44move beyond that or forward and start what you're doing, is so freaking amazing
- 33:52and it's really inspiring, it really is. You know, I talked to
- 33:55a lot of people and I haven't definitely not have have I had people on
- 34:04like yourselves, who are who are doing this? Thank you very God.
- 34:08Yeah, I'm very proud of ourselves. And I'm telling you it's a lot
- 34:14of hard work, you know, it's a lot of hard work to be
- 34:17able to take radical responsibility as a parent and say, you know, it
- 34:22wasn't okay how you were raised, It wasn't okay your role, it wasn't
- 34:28okay how I acted. None of those things were okay. You You are
- 34:31the most important. I am the parent, you are the child, and
- 34:36I need to be able to relate to you in that way. And I
- 34:39do it without one thousand percent no shame. That's the key. I'm not
- 34:45ashamed of it. Because trauma motivated my behaviors. Now I was for a
- 34:51very long time, but That's another one of our main main goals and what
- 34:58we're very passionate about is that we work with a lot of families where I
- 35:02work with the parent or the parents, and she works with the child,
- 35:07mostly adolescents, and we help them, you know, heal their their transgenerational
- 35:15trauma because everybody gets heard and validated and then they can come together and we
- 35:21can mediate and it's very powerful. That's that because when families heals society.
- 35:28Yeah yeah, look Wan Wine down here. What's the best way for Bele
- 35:34to get in contact with you? Both of our emails are on the website,
- 35:40which is Kimberly Mays m A, I Z E. Kimberlymays dot com
- 35:47and there's all kinds of everything that you could possibly want to know, is
- 35:52there? Okay, and your podcast is a new generation podcast. We'll have
- 35:58that linked up generation. This is our logo if anyone's looking, and it's
- 36:04on Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube and we're all over social media for interest
- 36:08in following along. Okay, we'll held those linked up. Look, you
- 36:12two love to have you back. You are definitely a dynamic power duo.
- 36:20It's amazing. I mean, come on, you're so freaking inspiring you.
- 36:25Yeah, I appreciate you. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you for
- 36:30saying that. But it is, it's it's it's what you're doing is amazing.
- 36:37So look, thank you so much and we'll be in touch. Thank
- 36:40you so much. Thank you,