The Finding Peace Podcast

The Day the Music Died

With April being Stress Awareness Month, country’s fresh new face Erin Cosgrove is talking about her own experience with anxiety and mental health, how she copes, how this helped her write her latest release Time To Live and why it is so important to bring awareness to the subject.
 
Stress Awareness Month is a time to bring awareness to what causes our stress and how we can keep ourselves healthy mentally. “I was in a serious state of depression for 6 months, basically it started as soon as the pandemic started. The stress of everything happening in the world really made my mental state decline,” says Erin. “What helped me most was writing music. Out of all the chaos came my single Time To Live, which was my way of releasing my emotions into a song and telling myself and others that everything will be okay. I wanted to give people as well as myself a sense of hope and inspire people to continue to live their lives rather than hide in fear.”
 
Throughout the month of April, Erin hopes to encourage those who also may be struggling. She shares that it is incredibly important to recognize the things in your life that are causing you stress, but on the other hand, it is just as important to find those healthy ways to deal with it. “Set aside time every day to put yourself first. I’m an advocate for listening to your own body, taking slow deep breaks, setting routines and short-term goals to start off the day with an accomplishment.”
 
Stress continues to build for her in another aspect of her life as she gets ready to move over two thousand miles away and relocating from her hometown in CA to Nashville this summer. “I’m so excited
to be making this move. Yes, it’s very stressful when it comes to packing everything up, including traveling with two cats and a dog. While I do love living in CA, it’s time for me to make that move to Nashville to continue doing what I love.”
 
As Erin gears up to release a lyric video for this song, scheduled to come out later this month, she shares one more perception on the meaning of this song. “Anxiety and depression can happen to anyone regardless of their situation and everyone handles pain differently. In all, be kind to others, there’s always hope. It’s Time To Live.”
Visit Erin Cosgrove at her website and follow along with her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Her song Time To Live is available on all digital platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and more. For more info on stress and ways to cope, visit www.stress.org.
 
About Erin Cosgrove: Breakthrough country artist Erin Cosgrove has it all. Based in Los Angeles and Nashville, this powerhouse singer, songwriter and actress has made a name for herself with a great social media following. Teaming up with Grammy winning producer Mikal Blue, Erin released her second single The Perfect Place to Start, which became an overnight hit, gaining over 15k Spotify streams in just the first week and premiered on Sirius XM The Highway. She is also an aspiring actress, having appeared in the hit TV show “Parenthood,” along with “Good Girls Revolt,” and USA’s reality show “Summer Camp.” Erin has opened for some of the biggest names in country music including A Thousand Horses, Big & Rich, Danielle Bradbery, Love & Theft and Russell Dickerson. She has performed at numerous festivals including the Oakheart Country Music Festival, Paddy Fest and Round Up Country Music Festival in CA as well as performing at the Daytona 500, the Tampa Bay Rays Baseball Stadium and the House of Blues. Whether she’s writing, performing, or acting, she feels most at home in front of a crowd or camera. With her powerful vocals, remarkable songwriting and impressive acting, Erin Cosgrove is setting the bar high with the finish line nowhere in sight.

Telling Our Stories

In this episode, I sit down with Rusti Lehay and explore the healing power of telling our stories. 
Rusti is a writing coach who offers keynotes, breakout sessions, webinars, weekend retreats (both destination & online), and daylong writing seminars. For over a decade she has been a creative writing instructor and writing coach/editor, specializing in bringing an empathic, heart-centered approach to coaching authors and beginning writers to craft and tweak their words, stories, and lessons. Using time-tested exercises, she shares how our experiences and events are our mirrors and best teachers.
 
Writers are encouraged to find and speak in their own voice to best serve their audience, not the editor. Working with writers is one of her greatest joys. Sometimes the audience is you as her key statement is “the pen is mightier than the therapist.” Driven by a passion for memoir and passing on stories, Rusti believes if you have lived and breathed, you have a story. The page is the most friendly place for reflection and self-examination. Rusti is often told, “You create such safety for anyone in your groups.” If you have lived and learned, you have the wisdom to share! Both as a writing & speaking coach, she believes the page and stage are waiting for you to appear. Someone is waiting to hear your journey and learn from your wisdom.
 
You can learn more about Rusti by going to her website: www.rustilehay.info
 
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What Happens to our Brains During a Traumatic Experience

In this episode, I share a recent experience that reminded me of what happens inside when we are faced with a threatening experience.  Listen as I discuss the flight or fight response and the aftermath.  I also remind listeners that they are worthy of love and belonging, even when we forget it sometimes.  
 

Special Guest - Elizabeth Power

I am so humbled and excited to interview Elizabeth Power.  Her story is amazing.  How many people have you met who have been able to overcome Dissociative Identity Disorder (also known as Multiple Personality Disorder.  You can learn more about Elizabeth at https://www.elizabethpower.com/.  Check out her new book, Healer: Reducing Crises
 
Elizabeth Power, M. Ed., CEO of EPower & Associates, Inc. epowerandassociates.com, is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, teacher, and consultant.  EPower &  Associates is the parent organization for The EPower Change Institute and The Trauma Informed Academy.
"All I do is help people with change, resilience and self-care, and alignment. And everything is done from the trauma-informed perspective," she says. "Even courses directly about working with trauma are about change."
Power develops cross-cultural adaptations of models of care for the mental health community as well as helping other countries like Japan develop their own models.  The Trauma-Informed Academy recently released her new model, The Trauma Responsive System which focuses on mastering 9 elements akin to applied emotional intelligence.
She was recently published as third author of an article in Family Medicine about the outcomes of the NIMH research project assessing the effectiveness of the use of the core principles of Risking Connection(r) by Primary Care Providers in their clinical settings. 
When organizations and associations book her as a speaker, it’s most often for motivation, to help people make and adapt to change or to tell her own story of hope and healing.  Conferences love her for her interactive virtual presentations on change, resilience and self-care, and trauma-informed thinking.
“Sharper than a number two pencil, and funnier than a six-pack of funny bones on go-juice,” was one audience member’s response. When you need a speaker with humor, depth, wisdom, and motivation, she’s the one.
 
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The Power of False Beliefs

In this episode, Troy tells the story of the Engine Light Incident that nearly left him stranded in the middle of a busy intersection.   He uses this story to illustrate the power of core beliefs.    
What are some of your core beliefs? Do they empower you or stop you in your tracks?
 
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Holiday Presence

In this episode, I share one of my favorite holiday memories.  We then explore how we can find greater peace, joy, and light in our lives through challenging the shadows of shame and seeking greater truths.
 
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Gratitude Shame

Why does Gratitude have to be so complicated?  Well, it's not really, but Shame sure has a way of making it messy.  Listen to how to honor emotion while also expressing gratitude in this episode of the Finding Peace Podcast.

The Monster in My Garden

In this episode, I explore fond childhood memory and how it relates to why we do some of the behaviors that we engage in.  Many times, we are trying to find ways to feel our love and belonging tank but then are shadows of shame tell us that doing so is wrong or they were doing it inappropriately. In this episode, we explore what is underneath the surface and how we can find creative ways to get our love and belonging tank filled in healthy, lasting, and peaceful ways.
 
 
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How Martial Arts Helped David Find Peace

In this episode, I have the privilege of interviewing up my very own self-defense instructor, David Perez. David shares what led him to find peace in the world of martial arts and how his experiences have led him to now have the opportunity to bless other people and tapping into their own inner power and challenging their mindset.

Understanding the Pendulum

As a child, whenever I would visit the Science Museum, I would love to watch the pendulum swinging back and forth. In this episode, we explore how the shadows of shame do a similar swing along the various spectrums. This episode helps you have a better understanding of the motivations of each of the shadows. I also give you another perspective based on Jungian psychology that was exemplified in the book, King, Magician, Warrior, Lover by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette that explores the parts of ourselves that can help us shine powerful light on the shadows.
 
At the end of the podcast, The Finding Peace Online Weekend Workshop is mentioned. Here, we will take a deeper dive into the Finding Peace Model and give you some tools to connect with your inner power while connecting with your truth.  You can learn more about the workshop here: https://www.findingpeaceacademy.com/onlineweekendworkshop
 
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