Victim 2 Victor: Healing Trauma & Building Real Love – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, we’re joined by Severn Lang - Creative Recovery Advocate, playwright, and filmmaker - whose work brings a powerful and compassionate lens to addiction, healing, and the stories we tell ourselves.

Severn’s journey moves beyond substance addiction and into something many of us experience without realising it: emotional addiction - the attachment to familiar cycles of stress, chaos, self-sabotage, and relationships that repeat the same pain.

He shares how creativity became both a lifeline and a mirror, helping him understand the emotional patterns that shaped his identity and, ultimately, how to break free from them.

We explore:

• What emotional addiction looks like in everyday life
• Why we unconsciously repeat the same toxic patterns
• How storytelling and creative expression can help us heal
• The courage required to let go and choose a new narrative

This conversation is an invitation to see recovery not as the end of a struggle - but as the beginning of a more authentic and connected life.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or trapped by cycles you can’t explain… this episode will speak to you.

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We all know that rush - the butterflies, the magnetic pull, the thrill of connection that makes you think, “This could be it.”

But what happens when the spark fades, and you realise your lifestyles, values, or visions for the future don’t quite align?

In this episode, Ashika Lessani and Anu Verma dive deep into the difference between chemistry and compatibility - and why both matter, but in very different ways. Together, we unpack the truth about attraction, emotional intelligence, and the courage it takes to choose peace over potential.

We explore:
💫 What chemistry really feels like (and why it’s so addictive)
💭 Why compatibility quietly determines long-term peace and partnership
💎 The fine line between having standards and being judgmental
❤️ How loneliness can tempt us to settle for less than we deserve
🌿 Why standards are a reflection of self-respect, not entitlement

This episode is for anyone who’s ever questioned if their “type” is keeping them stuck — or if their standards are really boundaries in disguise.

✨ Tune in, reflect, and learn how to build love that feels calm, aligned, and real.

#DatingWisdom #SelfWorth #Compatibility #EmotionalIntelligence #ModernLove #Boundaries #Healing #SelfAwareness

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In this raw and uplifting episode of Victim 2 Victor, I sit down with Sophia Elan - memoirist, multi-genre author, and global storyteller - who proves that our deepest wounds can birth our greatest strength.

After surviving trauma and emotional upheaval, Sophia turned to the page not just to heal, but to roar. Her memoir, How Writing ROAR Saved My Life, is a courageous exploration of reclaiming voice, breaking silence, and writing one’s way to freedom.

Now based abroad and living boldly as an expat writer, Sophia shares her transformative journey through memoir, fiction, and self-help. We explore how writing becomes therapy, why sensuality and creativity are forms of reclamation, and how reinvention is always possible - geographically, emotionally, and spiritually.

📖 In this episode, we dive into:

• The healing power of storytelling and owning your truth
• Why writing trauma is a courageous act of self-rescue
• How Sophia’s global lifestyle has redefined her sense of identity
• Navigating shame, voice, and visibility as a survivor
• What ROAR really stands for and how you can start writing your own

This conversation is a must-listen for anyone who’s been silenced, stuck, or afraid to tell their story. Sophia reminds us that healing is not about perfection - it’s about permission.

🖋️ Explore Sophia’s world:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mediterraneanme 

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/mediterraneanme 

Memoir: “How Writing ROAR Saved My Life” - https://go.shr.lc/46RZqef

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In today episode, I have the podcast host of Candle In A Dark Room, Desi Garcia on my show who shares the story of her life, how she survived trauma & how she lives in recovery today. 

Desi was continuously abused by her stepfather between the ages of 8 to 15, she pressed charges and her perpetrator was convicted though it never kept him away from her when he was released from prison. He continued to stalk Desi, following her to places and the police even found his computer full of images of her, which proved his obscene obsession towards her. 

In this episode, Desi explains how she managed to recover from so many years of abuse and how her trauma empowered her to help other survivors, which she is doing so successfully today.

Check out her podcast: https://anchor.fm/candleinadarkroom/

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As a masters-level Licensed Psychologist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, For over 30 years, Tom Glaser has helped people shed their fears, set free of what haunts them so that they come more into their true, full, beautiful selves. 

He offers collaborative therapy, healing the mind, heart, and body through awareness and experience. 

Tom believes: 
1) It is in the context of relationship that we make the deepest change
2) We grow and excel in an environment with just the right amount of support & challenge
3) We must feel understood--by ourselves, yes, and often by another--before we can make change
4) Engaging in our passions make us come alive. 

These core beliefs guide his work as a psychologist, life coach, author, radio host, and performer. 

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Dr. Heather Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Another Level Living - a professional training and coaching company. She is a master life harmony coach, speaker and trainer and her mission is to guide business leaders to achieving their work/life harmony which creates optimal prosperity and abundance. 

She uses easy strategies to support her clients in stressing less, increasing energy, and strengthening relationships to achieve victory and success in all life areas. She also certifies life coaches and communication (mind) experts and has certified over 350 life coaches to date.

In this episode, Heather shares how to have peace and prosperity even in the midst of chaos. We learn the secrets for increasing your life harmony as well as how to manage fear and stepping out of your comfort zone.

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Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AnotherLevelLiv/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drheathertucker/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BizLifeHarmony/ 

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Shame - Guilt expert Lois Hollis was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1943 and for thirty years, Lois taught hospital staff and nurses how to care for hemodialysis patients both in hospital and home.

Despite her many accomplishments, her abusive childhood traumas began to outweigh her vivacious lifestyle. She succumbed to guilt-ridden depression, heart and liver disease, 30 years of migraine headaches, and structural deformities. Her physicians told her that she could not live past 50 years. After ten years of unsuccessful therapies with traditional medical and psychological professions, she turned to holistic health.

Lois soon discovered that her emotional and physical health intricately weave themselves to produce health or disease. She could not remember her childhood, but soon, she was shocked to learn that her abusive childhood left many scars. She was diagnosed with brain traumas, fractured jaw, broken neck, and congenital heart disease. Since brain traumas cause an increased sensitivity to sunlight, she understood why there was a time she was unable to be in the daylight.

Lois soon learned from her emotions that shame/guilt distorts our biological systems and creates emotional and physical illnesses. Applying the release of shame-guilt from her life, she no longer had lingering depression. She now recognized that shame-guilt were the main offenders of health and wellbeing and that we can stop our struggle with the negativity of low self-esteem, anger, anxiety, and so on, when we address shame-guilt directly. 

Today is an exciting time. Everything is questioned, and new concepts are typical. Now is the time to expose shame-guilt and how changing our shame-guilt system can solve our mental health crisis.

Find out more about Lois: https://www.loishollis.com

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Amiee Boswinkle found her way out of the darkness and into the light when debilitating trauma, PTSD and addictions took over her life and she couldn’t find reprieve from conventional health care or therapies. 

For years, Amiee suffered from the shame of childhood sexual assault which led her down the path of alcoholism, drug addiction and various eating disorders. 

One day she woke up facing the possibility of spending a year in jail after she received her third driving conviction, so she decided something really had to change. 

She took matters into her own hands and studied the human body until was able to heal herself through nutrition and alternative health including energy medicine when all hope seemed lost. 

Today, Amiee touches the hearts and lives of people suffering from trauma, PTSD and addictions create peace and power in their mind so they find it in their life. 

Amiee is now an intuitive business coach, helping spiritually gifted coaches and service based entrepreneurs gain clients and financial freedom. 

Here are the links to where you can stay connected with Amiee: 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/amiee.boswinkle

IG: www.Instagram.com/amieeboswinkle 

Website: www.connectionsrestored.com 

Email:  amikboz@yahoo.com

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Ashika Lessani gave up her job in dentistry to start up her business as a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Life Coach, specializing in empowering, strengthening, and guiding women to see their potential through a multifaceted approach. 

Her journey was never picture perfect, even when it appeared to be so. Unable to own her singularity or her inner truth, she lived for everyone else except herself. After a major life shift in her early 30’s she realized that she had been living her life to other people’s expectations and boundaries. 

During this process, she has educated and surrounded herself with people and opportunities that allow her to become the most elevated and driven version of herself. Her purpose is to serve women to redesign their lives so they can create their own masterpiece.

In todays episode, we discuss the importance of nutrition, liver function, bowel movements and sleep hygiene to help support our body and to balance out our hormones. 

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Ari Schonbrun is a 9/11 hero & survivor turned Author, Speaker, Podcast Host and Executive Performance Coach.  Mr. Schonbrun was on the 78th floor of Tower One at The World Trade Center when the first plane hit on September 11, 2001. He helped a colleague suffering third degree burns to safety and was thrown into the national spotlight thereafter. His miraculous first-hand account about survival has been retold in newspapers, magazines, broadcast outlets, and books.

Mr. Schonbrun is a renowned inspirational speaker and the author of ‘Miracles & Fate on 78’. He draws from the personal heartbreak he endured during the devastation of 9/11, deftly weaving in his capital markets expertise after more than three decades of working on Wall Street. He speaks with energy, fluency and wisdom, utilizing his humorous and engaging personality to stir and inspire audiences worldwide.

Mr. Schonbrun is a native New Yorker. He is passionate about philanthropy and serves as a board member of Strength to Strength, a global non-profit organization that works with victims of terror across the world.

He is also the host of Whispers & Bricks Podcast and the creator of Whispers & Bricks Coaching Academy, focusing on middle management and executive life coaching.

You can catch Ari on his podcast: https://whispersandbrickspodcast.com/

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