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It Started With Pain with Joan Coletto · The Trauma Therapist

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Trauma Therapists podcast.
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  Speaker 2: My name is guiming Person and I interview incredible people
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  Speaker 2: who share the story of how trauma has shaped their lives.
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  Speaker 2: And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes
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  Speaker 2: to my guest and our sponsors. So five four, three,
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  Speaker 2: two and one, Our folks, welcome back to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Very excited to happ as my guest today. Joan Coletto Joan, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for
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  Speaker 3: having me.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Joan is a heart centered hypnotherapist, spiritual practitioner, and the
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  Speaker 1: creator of heart Shift, a powerful fusion of hypnotherapy and
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  Speaker 1: spikeual practice that helps people release emotional pain and limiting
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  Speaker 1: beliefs so they can live with more peace, joy, and purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Known for her compassionate presence and deep insight, Joan is
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  Speaker 1: guided countless individuals to the root of their struggles, helping
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  Speaker 1: them shift from survival to true self empowerment. Her upcoming
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  Speaker 1: book is titled Heart Shift and shares the stories of
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  Speaker 1: transformation she's witnessed and the tool she uses to support
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  Speaker 1: lasting change. All right, Joan, obviously just a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about you, But before we get going, share with us,
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  Speaker 1: share with our listeners. Where you're from originally and where
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  Speaker 1: you are currently.
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  Speaker 3: So the answer to both of those questions is Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: born and raised and left for travels. But I've always
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  Speaker 3: lived here.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, all right? So how does this start for you,
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  Speaker 1: this passion, this purpose? How did you get into this?
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  Speaker 3: It started with pain, and I think that's what starts
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us on journeys of transformation and making
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  Speaker 3: shifts in our life. And for me, it was the
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  Speaker 3: pain of infertility, losing pregnancies, and I turned to spirituality
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  Speaker 3: and that was the beginning of my journey finding. I
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  Speaker 3: found a spiritual center and it was a guidepost for me.
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  Speaker 1: So it started with pain, wow, infertility. So give us
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  Speaker 1: a little more detail. What's going on for you?
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  Speaker 3: So my husband and I had been married for a
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  Speaker 3: few years, wanted a family, and you know, had had miscarriages, infertility,
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  Speaker 3: and I knew inside I think there was always something
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  Speaker 3: in me that had a spiritual leaned that knowing that
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  Speaker 3: there was something greater than myself. Although not raised in
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  Speaker 3: a particularly religious home or anything like that, I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like there was this higher power or something that
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  Speaker 3: was for good so stumbling upon a spiritual center right
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  Speaker 3: here in Chicago was really that guide, and I learned
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  Speaker 3: about the oneness of all life. It was just the
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  Speaker 3: start of a beautiful journey and listening to guidance, listening
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  Speaker 3: to inner guidance and intuition, and I believe that's what
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  Speaker 3: led us to, you know, finding the solutions to the
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  Speaker 3: infertility and ultimately having two healthy, wonderful children that are.
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  Speaker 1: Now growing up. Just going back a little bit mm hm,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for sharing this. So when you were
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  Speaker 1: experiencing the infertility and the pain, you were like, what
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  Speaker 1: the hell is going on here? And that started leading
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  Speaker 1: you to search to maybe even accept the spiritual quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote side or facet.
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  Speaker 3: Of you exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So what happens you find this center?
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  Speaker 3: I got Yeah, So I just got involved. I started
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  Speaker 3: taking classes and getting involved at the center and just
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  Speaker 3: learning more about life, about transformation, about positive thinking, law
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  Speaker 3: of attraction, those type of things, And it was just
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  Speaker 3: that beacon of hope for me, and things really started changing.
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  Speaker 3: And within I would say it was probably about a
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  Speaker 3: year or a year and a half, I was pregnant,
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  Speaker 3: and that time I stayed pregnant and had my daughter
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  Speaker 3: and it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So what I mean, OK, what do you attribute that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, can you even answer that question? What do
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  Speaker 1: you attribute that to?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was a shift in my consciousness, It
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  Speaker 3: was timing. It was also I mean not that we
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  Speaker 3: didn't have any you know, medical doctors or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it was it was all that, but
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  Speaker 3: it's what led me to it. It changed. It truly
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  Speaker 3: changed my life. And when I found out that there
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  Speaker 3: was a pathway for me to take classes and to
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  Speaker 3: actually be able to work with people and help people
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  Speaker 3: the way I felt I had been helped, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm all in, sign me up. And that was really
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of my journey to begin so what I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing now?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Okay, so you wanted to well, how were
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  Speaker 1: you helped in terms of what belief systems?
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  Speaker 3: Belief system A shift in my belief system, A total
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  Speaker 3: shift in my belief system that things were possible, that
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  Speaker 3: life was for me, that there wasn't some punishing God
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  Speaker 3: whatever out there, that I had done something wrong, but
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  Speaker 3: to know actually life is for me, it's my perhaps
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  Speaker 3: my beliefs that are part of what is stopping me.
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  Speaker 1: I would assume that different people could have taken on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different beliefs. Well, we weren't meant to
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  Speaker 1: have kids this way, or we weren't meant to have kids,
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  Speaker 1: or well that's how things happened, or God has other
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  Speaker 1: plans for me. Whatever. Yes, but so how