What happens when you've spent your life surviving - and begin to realise there may be a purpose within everything you've lived through?In this episode of The Auburn Conversations, I’m joined by wellness coach Heather from Walking With Heather, whose extraordinary story is one of illness, trauma, faith, resilience and ultimately finding a way to use her experiences to help others.Heather was born with a congenital heart defect and was not expected to survive to her first birthday.She did.By the age of 17, she had undergone four open-heart surgeries. Then, at 38, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. She also lives with fibromyalgia, ADHD, osteoarthritis and chronic pain.But this conversation isn't simply about everything Heather has survived.It's about what happened because she survived.Heather speaks openly about the medical trauma, depression and anxiety she has experienced, and shares an incredibly personal period in her life when she questioned whether she wanted to continue.She also tells me about an experience during heart surgery at the age of 16 that she has rarely spoken about.Heather remembers watching the surgery taking place and feeling a peaceful presence with her. At the end, she remembers hearing:🧡 “It is not your time, I have a greater purpose for you.”Today, Heather believes that purpose is becoming clearer.She now uses her own lived experience to support and advocate for people living with chronic illness and invisible disabilities, while building her work as a wellness coach and sharing stories through her own podcast, Living Beyond the Invisible: A Walk with Heather.In our conversation we explore:✨ Growing up with a congenital heart condition✨ Surviving four open-heart surgeries✨ Heather's experience of breast cancer✨ Chronic pain and fibromyalgia✨ The hidden impact of medical trauma✨ Why people with invisible illnesses often mask how they're really feeling✨ Faith and Heather's relationship with God✨ Her extraordinary experience during heart surgery✨ Finding purpose after years of questioning why✨ Becoming a voice for people with invisible disabilities✨ Taking small, realistic steps when living with chronic illness✨ Heather's work as a wellness coach✨ Her dream of creating a nonprofit to support the chronic illness communityTowards the end, I asked Heather what she would say to her younger self, knowing everything she knows today.Her answer was beautiful:🧡 “Your life has meaning.”And:🧡 “The world is absolutely a better place with you in it and you 100% have a purpose.”This is an incredibly open conversation about surviving, healing, faith, purpose and discovering that sometimes the experiences we would never have chosen can lead us somewhere we never expected.Thank you, Heather, for trusting me with your story. 🧡⚠️ Content note: This episode contains discussion of serious illness, medical trauma, depression, anxiety and past suicidal thoughts. Please take care while listening.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH HEATHER🌐 Website:walkingwithheather.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━THE AUBURN CONVERSATIONSFor more episodes and to find all the listening platforms, visit:🌐 Website: https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/ Other social platforms:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjwilliamsspiritualacademy/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/williams.sarahj ▶️ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEbffKtWxgc💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjwilliamsspiritualartsacademy/ 🧡 The Auburn Guide - SJ Williams, buy the book:www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/buy-the-auburn-guide#TheAuburnConversations #chronicillness #invisibleillness #medicaltrauma #findingpurpose #spiritualjourney #faith #fibromyalgia #wellness #WalkingWithHeather #TheAuburnGuide

Tammy Braswell, of Create by Vibration, is the Channel with All That Is, Energetic Creation Guide, and Transmitter of Divine Frequencies, Wisdom, and Truths.

She guides women in fully living their divinity through their humanness... elevating conceptual understanding into lived understanding that deepens their clarity in the ways they consciously express that within themselves and the experiences of their life. Through identifying and elevating the space between knowing a concept and fully living it, life is no longer something being reached for... it is what is being consciously created and lived from in her divine wholeness.

Tammy has been experiencing energy, spirits, and the unseen since childhood. For decades, she has consciously lived in the magic and awareness of her connection with her Divine Self, her Soul, and Source. This connection is foundational in what she shares through divinely channelled transmissions with All That Is that open women to what the expanded part of them has always known.

What she shares is an ever-expanding tapestry of everything she has studied, intuited, channelled, and lived across lifetimes, bridging the unseen with the human so higher frequencies are not just felt, but fully lived.

Tammy invites women into Your Divine Journey with her... spaces, experiences, and direct guidance that support them in aligning clearly with their highest divine frequencies, truth, and power.

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CONNECT WITH TAMMY BRASWELL

🌐 Website:https://createbyvibration.com/contact-me/

📘 Facebook - Create By Vibration with Tammy Braswell: www.facebook.com/createbyvibrationwithtammybraswell/

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📸 Instagram:www.instagram.com/createbyvibrationwithtammyb/

💼 LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/tammybraswell/

✍️ Substack:https://substack.com/@tammybraswell

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ABOUT THE AUBURN CONVERSATIONS

The Auburn Conversations is a space for honest conversations about spiritual awakening, intuition, healing, self-discovery and the experiences that can change the direction of our lives.

These conversations also explore many of the themes within my spiritual memoir, The Auburn Guide - my own story of spiritual awakening, healing childhood trauma, intuition and self-discovery.

📕 THE AUBURN GUIDE - SJ WILLIAMS

Buy the book: https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/buy-the-auburn-guide

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📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjwilliamsspiritualacademy/

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What if changing your life begins with changing the story you’re telling yourself?

In this episode of The Auburn Conversations, I’m joined by Fiona Robertson, transformational mentor, intuitive guide, speaker, author and creator of the Practical Magic method.

Fiona shares the extraordinary journey that took her from running and eventually selling a £1 million company to following her intuition into an entirely different life.

We talk about meditation, Reiki, manifestation and learning to recognise spiritual guidance - including the question Fiona heard that changed everything:

“Do you want to be doing this in five years’ time?”

We also explore Fiona’s remarkable experiences with Dragon energy, beginning with her encounter with Seraphina, and how this eventually led to her book Interview With A Dragon and the work she does today.

Along the way, we explore intuition, soul guidance, manifestation, breaking old patterns, consciously creating our reality and the stories we repeatedly tell ourselves.

As Fiona says:

“How do we change our lives? Change the story that we’re telling.”

This is a conversation about trusting the unexpected, listening to the guidance within and having the courage to follow where it leads - even when the destination looks nothing like the life you had planned.

🐉 Fiona Robertson is the author of Interview With A Dragon and creator of the Dragon Way Shower Cards, helping people unlock their inner power, intuition and abundance.

The Auburn Conversations is a space for honest conversations about spiritual awakening, intuition, healing, self-discovery and the experiences that can change the direction of our lives.

📕 Find out more about The Auburn Guide - SJ Williams and The Auburn Conversations at:
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What happens when you stop allowing a diagnosis - or other people's perceptions of it - to silence your voice?

In this episode of The Auburn Conversations, I’m joined by Dene Dubois, founder of BPD Raw, memoirist and lived-experience advocate, for an open conversation about borderline personality disorder (BPD), childhood trauma, mental health, stigma and turning lived experience into purpose.

Dene shares openly about growing up in a difficult family environment, being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, experiencing discrimination, and eventually deciding to use those experiences to speak up for others who often feel misunderstood.

We also talk about BPD Raw and Dene's work to create a space where people living with BPD - and those who support them - can share their experiences without shame.

In this conversation we explore:

✨ Living with borderline personality disorder (BPD)

✨ Childhood trauma and how our early experiences can stay with us

✨ The stigma surrounding BPD and mental health

✨ Feeling misunderstood by the people around you

✨ Emotional triggers, anger and what Dene describes as "splitting"

✨ Relationships, trust and fear of rejection

✨ Radical self-accountability and understanding our reactions

✨ Why lived experience deserves a voice

✨ The creation of BPD Raw

✨ Dene's memoirs The Places I Didn't Belong and Maybe I Did Belong

✨ A new book project bringing together raw, unfiltered letters from people affected by BPD

✨ Personal experiences of mental health treatment and finding what helps

✨ Turning pain into purpose

One of the most powerful themes running through our conversation is the importance of being heard.

Dene believes that people living with BPD should not have to hide who they are or feel ashamed of their experiences. Through BPD Raw, writing and podcasting, Dene is creating space for those voices to be heard.

As Dene says:🧡 "Without our voices, the stigma will not change."

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CONNECT WITH DENE DUBOIS

BPD Raw: https://bpdraw.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61588888665317

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dene-dubois-2b492960/

Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcHblKkiDz2g

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ABOUT THE AUBURN CONVERSATIONS

The Auburn Conversations is a space for honest conversations about spiritual awakening, intuition, healing, self-discovery, mental health, lived experience and the moments that can change the direction of our lives.

These conversations also explore many of the themes within my spiritual memoir, The Auburn Guide - my own story of spiritual awakening, healing childhood trauma, intuition and self-discovery.

📕 THE AUBURN GUIDE - SJ WILLIAMS

Buy the book:https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/buy-the-auburn-guide

🌐 Website:https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/

📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sjwilliamsspiritualacademy/

📘Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/williams.sarahj

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💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjwilliamsspiritualartsacademy/

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#BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BPD #BPDAwareness #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #ChildhoodTrauma #TraumaHealing #LivedExperience #SelfDiscovery #spiritualawakening #TheAuburnConversations #TheAuburnGuide

What happens when you stop fighting life and start listening to yourself?

In this episode of The Auburn Conversations, Sarah Williams, the Podcast Host is joined by Jo Barker, founder of Intuitive Pause and creator of Midlife Turning Point, for a conversation about spiritual awakening, healing, intuition and self-discovery.

Jo shares the experiences that changed the direction of her life, including major surgery, severe eczema and the beginning of a holistic healing journey.

We explore the connection between our emotions, nervous system and body, and what can happen when we continually override what our intuition is trying to tell us.

In this conversation we explore:

✨ Spiritual awakening and coming home to yourself

✨ Learning to recognise and trust your intuition

✨ Breaking old survival patterns

✨ Fight, flight and freeze responses

✨ Healing and reconnecting with the body

✨ Breathwork and holistic wellbeing

✨ Why we repeat patterns of fixing, fighting and controlling

✨ Identity shifts during midlife

✨ Numerology and astrology

✨ Learning to pause instead of react

✨ Finding peace when life feels uncertain

✨ Self-discovery and living more authentically

Jo's story reminds us that a spiritual journey isn't necessarily about becoming somebody new. Sometimes it's about slowing down enough to rediscover the person underneath the expectations, survival patterns and conditioning.

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CONNECT WITH JO BARKER🌐 Website:https://intuitivepause.com/📘 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/jo.barker2📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/jo_intuitive_coach💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanne-catherine-barker-4aa61514/

Other links / courses / services: Jo Barker - Intuitive Coach AI

https://greatexperts.ai/joanne-catherine-barker

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ABOUT THE AUBURN CONVERSATIONS

The Auburn Conversations is a space for honest conversations about spiritual awakening, intuition, healing, self-discovery and the experiences that can change the direction of our lives. These conversations also explore many of the themes within my spiritual memoir, The Auburn Guide - my own story of spiritual awakening, healing childhood trauma, intuition and self-discovery.

📕 THE AUBURN GUIDE - SJ WILLIAMS

Find out more / buy the book:

https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/buy-the-auburn-guide

🌐 Website:https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/

📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sjwilliamsspiritualacademy/

📘 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/sjwilliamsspiritualartsacademy

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What does a spiritual awakening really feel like? How can you connect with your spirit guides, trust your intuition, and understand the deeper patterns in your life?

In the very first episode of The Auburn Conversations, I answer real spiritual questions submitted by members of the public, exploring spiritual awakening, spiritual healing, spirit guides, intuition, soul contracts, life lessons and finding your purpose.

We talk about why the same situations can keep appearing in our lives, whether we can change the path we've chosen, how to recognise spiritual guidance, why some people feel more connected to spirit than others, and what it can mean when people enter - and leave - our lives.

An open, down-to-earth conversation about spirituality, personal growth and learning to trust yourself and your own intuition.

Follow The Auburn Conversations for more honest conversations about spirituality, healing and navigating life.

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ABOUT THE AUBURN CONVERSATIONS

The Auburn Conversations is a space for honest conversations about spiritual awakening, intuition, healing, self-discovery and the experiences that can change the direction of our lives. These conversationsalso explore many of the themes within my spiritual memoir, The Auburn Guide - my own story of spiritual awakening, healing childhood trauma, intuition and self-discovery.

📕 THE AUBURN GUIDE - SJ WILLIAMS

Find out more / buy the book: https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/buy-the-auburn-guide

🌐 Website: https://www.sjwilliams-spiritual-arts-academy.com/

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjwilliamsspiritualacademy/

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sjwilliamsspiritualartsacademy

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sjwilliamsspiritualartsacademy

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjwilliamsspiritualartsacademy/

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