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Finding the Gifts in Trauma, with Keira Poulsen

Ep. 105

Have you experienced trauma and struggled to move through it so you can get on the other side and find the gifts in the experience? I know I have. If that’s your case too, this episode is for you.



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QUESTIONS SHE ANSWERED IN THIS EPISODE


  • How do you define trauma?
  • What is your life brought you to help people through trauma.
  • How can we move through trauma?
  • Any tips for people who think there’s no way they can live through the pain, the darkness?
  • How can we use our experience to create, share and have an impact on the world?
  • How does it look like to connect with your divine self?
  • How can we show up in our business with the healing work of our trauma as the fuel behind us?
  • How do you show up in your purpose if you are feeling overwhelmed with the pain?
  • What are the things we can do daily to support our healing and supporting our impact?

ABOUT OUR GUEST


Keira Poulsen is a mother to 5 children, an intuitive spiritual entrepreneurship coach, 2 x author, and CEO of Freedom House Publishing Co.  

Keira helps women who feel inspired to make a huge impact in the world write transformative books of light. She teaches them how to receive their book with spiritual tools that allow for the creation of the book to come through in under 2 months’ time.

Keira then helps them create successful businesses of light, derived from the message of their book.  It is her deepest belief that women who are receiving powerful messages of truth from the Divine are here to share these messages through published books and create powerful and successful businesses of light that will impact humanity for the better! "

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