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Ep 59. Trauma, healing and high functioning anxiety with Grace Victory
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Grace Victory is an award-winning creator, and trainee counsellor. She’s a TEDX speaker and has been awarded ‘Most Inspiring Role Model’ for InStyle Magazine’s Project 13.
Over the last few years Grace has presented multiple TV shows, including “Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets” – one of the most watched documentaries on BBC3, achieving over 1.5 million views across BBC1 and BBC3 combined.
Grace talks about problems that all young people and women face, as well as topics that are perceived taboo; therapy, sex, trauma, relationship dynamics, diet culture, self awareness and spirituality. Grace’s content has a focus of plus size fashion, healing the mind, body and spirit and the importance of personal development.
We discuss:
-High functioning anxiety
-Grace shares her story of coming from childhood abuse to finding her own path to healing and training to be a counsellor
-Why healing should be holistic
-Why you have to feel your feelings in order to heal them.
-Why we’ve lost our power and how to regain it
Come over to www.calmer-you.com/confidence to join my free 5 day confidence challenge – starting on 1st July I’ll lead you through 5 days of simple yet powerful exercises to grow your confidence, calm your inner critic, create a new positive self image and connect with other like-minded people so we can all support each other and cheer each other on.
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Transcript
Chloe:
Hello, and welcome to The Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe
Brotheridge. I’m a coach and a therapist and the author of The Anxiety
Solution, and a new book, Brave New Girl: Seven Steps to Confidence. So, this
week I’m talking to the amazing Grace Victory, an award winning content
creator, she’s also a trainee counsellor, she is a TEDX speaker and she’s been
awarded the ‘Most Inspiring Role Model Award’ for InStyle Magazine’s Project
13. She’s presented multiple TV Shows including “Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets”
– one of the most watched documentary on BBC 3. And in this inspiring
conversation, we talk about high functioning anxiety, something that Grace
experiences.
She
shares the stories of coming from her own childhood abuse to finding her own
path to healing and going on to train as a counsellor, and she discusses why
healing should be holistic and also, why we might have to actually feel our
feelings in order to heal them. And we also talk about why we've lost our power
and how we can start to regain it. I also want to invite you to come over to calmeryou.com/confidence on the first of July, I'm going to be leading a five day
confidence challenge. I'm going to lead you through simple, yet powerful
exercises, to grow your confidence, calm your inner critic, create a new
positive self image and connect with other like minded people so that we can
all support each other and cheer each other on as we go on this journey
together. So, if you want to get involved in this free challenge, enter your
email address at calmeryou.com/confidence. So, let's get into the episode with Grace.
Grace: Yeah,
so I started making YouTube videos in 2011.
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