Season three of Rocking A Betrayal kicks off with Love Fraud Founder Donna Andersen.
Donna was the first to appear on the reality show “Who The (BLEEP) Did I Marry?” long before before movies like 2022, “The Tindler Swindler” and 2018 series like “Dirty John” aired.
This “Era of the Sociopath” EXPERIENCE of what feels like a Spiritual Rape is one that many of US can relate to whether it happens personally or professionally.
This episode does a spiritual deep dive on the importance of going into the suffering and using the ENERGY for greater healing and change.
Expect to:
Find out how not to drink the sociopath kool-aid.
Learn how to write a linear and non-linear action plan to get past your fraud or betrayal.
Find out myth busters on who actually falls prey to sociopaths.
Realize the characteristics of what the fraudsters look for in their victims.
Leave the podcast episode feeling empowered and hopeful if you or anyone has gone through a fraud.
Let’s Rock the Betrayal:
Donna Andersen is creator of Lovefraud.com, a website that teaches people to recognize and recover from sociopaths. She is the author of eight books, including Senior Sociopaths — How to recognize and escape lifelong abusers (May 2022), Red Flags of Love Fraud—10 signs you’re dating a sociopath, the Red Flags of Love Fraud Workbook and the four-part Best of the Lovefraud Blog series. She learned about sociopaths the hard way, by marrying one, and tells the whole outrageous story in her first book, Love Fraud.
Donna founded Lovefraud Education and Recovery, a nonprofit that offers webinars to help survivors and professionals identify, escape and recover from sociopaths, including narcissists, psychopaths and other manipulators. She is co-author of two scientific papers and has presented research to the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.
Donna has appeared on Investigation Discovery TV shows including Love, Honor, Betray; Deadly Women and Who the Bleep Did I Marry? She also appeared on Insightin Australia, ABC News 20/20, My Life is a Lifetime Movie, Handsome Devils and The Ricki Lake Show. She has been interviewed for multiple radio shows, print articles and online articles. She graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in psychology and journalism. Donna is happily remarried, proving that recovery from betrayal is possible.
The Dr. Denise Show introduces you to Doctors, experts and pioneers in the world of mental health who are committed to a paradigm progression. Adult and Child Psychiatrist, Dr. Denise McDermott, M.D. specializes in an Integrative approach. She believes in prescribing the least amount of medication and she empowers you to thrive by showing you how to take a multi-dimensional approach to wellness, not illness.
Dr. Denise McDermott, M.D. has been in private practice since 2001. As a medical doctor with board certifications in both Adult and Child Psychiatry, she treats children, adolescents and adults. Her goal is to empower you, your child, and your family to live the best life possible. Her approach is to encourage people to believe in wellness, not illness, and to lead a balanced healthy lifestyle.
What comes to mind when you say the words “The Golden Thread?”
When we pay attention to our words, thoughts and actions in the Moment Of Now and are in the Space of Awareness, Self Love and Altruism our unique Golden Tapestry is created.
Introduction:
Show Notes:
8/18/15
My Thoughts
Mission Statement:
I am aligned with being a Facilitator of Health and Wellness to help ALL KIND to reach their highest vibration and their highest self through a greater awareness of consciousness. I intend to continue to co-create with many ThoughtLeaders to integrate our thoughts to achieve a better planet and Universe.
As If Goals :
Meditation and Kindness will be a “natural part” of everyday life (just like brushing your teeth). This will raise the vibration of the planet exponentially.
Society will accept that we all have intuition (in varying degrees), we are all connected and that we are naturally evolving as a species.
Society will accept that there is abundance and we need to live in a way that respects our earth.
We need to redefine many terms to allow all of us to keep an open mind and open heart to evolve and strive to be our best self.
Examples: Intuitive not psychic. Wellness not Illness. Re-Order instead of DisOrder.
I agree with the Dalai Lama. Compassion is the key. It starts with compassion for self and moves to compassion for family and friends to compassion for our communities—- to Our World—-to Our Universe. “All Sentient Beings”. His Holiness is including all beings on Earth and the Universe.Society will truly embrace compassion.
Every M.D. and health care provider will be Universally addressing Mind, Body & Spirit to achieve wellness. It will be a part of every intake and treatment plan. An Integrative Wellness Plan with a nurse practitioner and social worker co-creating as first line of intake to present to the M.D..
Mind Perspective
“We are our thoughts”. “Thoughts change the World”. Everyone will truly embrace this concept as it will be part of our education system.
As doctors we are “Facilitators of Wellness”. We can validate someone’s pain and suffering and let them know their Western Medicine Diagnosis. Define “Integrative Wellness Plan”
Love yourself enough to take care of yourself and do not live from a fear based perception. I am not saying we as humans will never have fear, it is primal. Realize there are solutions to getting out of fear -based perceptions. They are limiting thoughts.
As a mom and child psychiatrist I can say that our children need us now more than ever.
The temptations, easy access via internet & opportunities for fast track behavior is rampant.
The social hierarchies and complex online landscapes makes it very important to “be in the know” and truly connect and talk with your child or teen.
I have strategically prioritized my decisions, schedule, time investments and saying NO to personal and professional opportunities to BE a present parent.
“Protect your brain” Is one way of talking to your child about making good choices mentally and physically.
An authoritative parenting style, not authoritarian is one with KIND, yet FIRM limits.
Explaining your WHY for rules and boundaries coupled with taking interest & quality time goes a long way for the connection.
I have almost 25 years in practice as a child psychiatrist in my community with listening to feelings and concerns of our youth.
It is ALOT to navigate.
The depression & anxiety rates, substance use, social and academic challenges are alarming in my community and globally.
Tips:
Prioritize your child, if you can be the one to pick or drop them off from school (this is when they spill the beans) do it.
Be AHEAD of their next developmental shift (ask questions, educate, an encourage open dialogue).
Real LIfe:
We had three gun threats at my son’s school in the last 18 months.
Have an open dialogue, attend school safety meetings & be a voice at home and a vehicle for change in your community.
Talk feelings, solutions, & educate your child on mental health and relationships.
If you are weak in any area get a mentor, coach, family member or counselor to fill in the gaps.
Learn the TEEN Talk.
Say your sorry if you are wrong.
Engage your child and know which social media outlets, games & influencers are resonating with them & why (even if you are not a fan).
William Stetson, Esq. gives us a window into the world of the delicate and dicey discussions he has with his clients and their families in estate and trust planning.
We cover legal situations of fiscal abundance, disinheritance, second marriages, malice, family conflict, and even a “BURN IT TO THE GROUND” scenario.
Insight into Willliam’s mindset of success and invaluable tips, tool and more are in this power packed episode:
William (Bill) Stetson is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Wills, Trusts and Estates. With more than 20 years of experience and his LLM in Taxation from the University of Florida, Bill is a uniquely qualified attorney who concentrates his law practice in the areas of estate and trust planning, asset protection planning, and fiduciary and beneficiary representation. Prior to joining our team, Bill served as a Florida Assistant Attorney General in Tallahassee, Florida. His work in private practice took him to the well-known law firms of SNR Denton (formerly Sonnenschein) and Gunster Yoakley. In 2013 he went in-house to serve as a family foundation’s Executive Director and General Counsel.
Bill represents clients in IRS audits, probate and trust litigation, income and transfer tax planning, and estate and trust planningand administration. He has a special aptitude for legacy real estate.
Bill has a love of the outdoors and can often be found fishing, skeet shooting or hunting with his son. He also serves as driver and highly berated “caraoke” DJ for his daughter’s journeys to school.
Are you ready to be inspired by Yogini Jaima’s description of her journey away from illness and ignorance to health, empowerment and love?
This interview is what I call a “kiss on the cheek from the UNIVERSE” as the mind, body, soul creative resonance is a match with past, present and future synchronicities.
Yogini Jaima is the spiritual actress that portrays a homeless person that finds hope and faith in God through the teachings of Yogananda in the immersive spiritual musical Yoganandance that is in residence in the LA Arts District right now.
After doing this interview and seeing her perform on stage I am humbled to witness a True Integration of Yogini’s Ascension Path of her life experiences.
Tune in as her journey away from dis-ease and to BEing At Ease is one we can all relate to in our own unique way:
Fifteen years ago, Yogini Jaima traveled to India to study with some of the greatest living masters of Yoga – and dramatically changed her life. She first immersed herself in Ayurvedic study, guided by renowned guru Sri Vasudevan from the thousand-year-old Nataraj Lineage of Sri Namboothiripad. She also began a daily practice of intensive yoga. After healing severe long term health issues, Yogini went on to become a teacher of Yoga under the directorship of Yogi Charu, an inducted disciple of the Saraswa; lineage. Under his direct guidance, she was initiated into this venerated lineage of teachers.
Yogini Jaima continued her yogic journey, receiving Diksha with her Guru, Peethadishwari Swami Satyasangananda Saraswa; of Rikhiapeeth Ashram and the Sivananda Lineage, becoming initiated into the higher practices of Tantra, Kundalini, Kriya, and Raja Yoga.
Yogini Jaima travels the world now, sharing her generous knowledge of Yoga and Ayurveda with seekers of many varied cultures and backgrounds.
She continues to be sought after as a master teacher and healer, known for her ability to make the complexities of classic teachings accessible and for personalizing yoga and Ayurveda to each practitioners needs.
Yogini Jaima now divides her time between India and the US with her husband @yogicameron. She brings her passion for yogic teachings and dedication to uplifting humanity to a worldwide audience through InspireLiving.co, the portal they co-founded together.
Are you a creator of your own content, product, idea and are at the stage of setting the foundation of protecting your intellectual property?
This is a taking care of business episode with practical tips, tools and more that allow you to begin to understand:
What’s a TM? (Is it the same as copyright?)
Why are trademarks important to service providers and not just things like packaged brands?
Can I trademark my name?
What makes a good TM (creative/available)?
What’s wrong with boring names?
What is the process to register?
This is a must listen to episode for the ABC’s of IP:
Suzann is the owner of The Moskowitz Firm,which is a boutique law practice focused on trademark, copyright, and related issues. Suzann opted out of large-firm life in 2010 and now works more closely with creative entrepreneurs, food and beverage businesses, technology start-ups, and established companies to protect their valuable intellectual property and to navigate the evolving legal landscape.
Suzann received her B.S. in Policy Analysis from Cornell University (1998), lived in New York where she worked at the legal department at Newsweek, graduated Stanford Law School (2003), and lived in Seattle and Ireland. She currently runs her international practice from the shores of Lake Erie, in Cleveland, Ohio.
“The Dr. Denise Show” launches its first “On Staying Sane” carve-out series of 2023 — and the focus is on Reverent Relationships!
Dr. Denise gives us three challenges for the new year in terms of our relationships. Think of it as a resolution for your most sacred connections. You’ll learn about identifying the NeuroStyle of the people in your life and how that will will make these relationships even more reverent.You’ll get defined communication goals and learn the power of the apology.From a “Crabby Alert” to being gentle with oneself, this show will explore the beauty of deeper gratitude for our loved ones.
I invite you to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. with Thomas Lane and I. I received an inspiring email that led to this interview on 1/16/23 recorded and released on MLK Day.
KING Music & Lyrics by Thomas Lane
In the Spring of '68, the bullets rose
From a sea of hate
In Memphis Town,
they gunned him down
And the hopes of a nation went underground
Blue skies full of holes, I cried beside the radio
It's all a lie, the King can’t die
But there's blood in the shadows
My world shattered like a window
Chorus
The days are hard, the journey seems so long
I hear him calling, calling calling
to carry on
Silent moon above the angry tide
His ghost looks back from the mountainside
A restless force
A riderless horse
is standing neath the pale stars
and stamping on the graveyard
Chorus
Musical Bridge
A garden grows in my back yard
I walk out there when the wind blows hard
A time for Spring, a time for kings
and I will stand on that Memphis street
and hear the triumph of his heartbeat
Chorus
The days are hard, I struggle to stay strong
I hear him calling, calling to carry on
The work goes on, the dream will come to pass
I hear him calling, calling, calling... free at last
In Sacred Remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.:
The March on Washington
Maybe like you, on my journey towards clarity, there have been moments in my life where conflict and trouble seemed to melt away, leaving nothing but a bright constellation of formerly broken pieces in alignment: sometimes magical, sometimes comical, always profound.
There was a singular event that happened in my early teens when this experience occurred and became a North Star for my life. I was not alone. The same occasion impacted millions of others who bore witness to the spectacle: now etched in the history of our progress as a people –– simply referred to as The March on Washington.
Racism. The word itself seems bitter on the tongue. Even as a child, growing up in a progressive household, I could feel my stomach tighten when the subject came up…an instinctual outrage erupting over the cruelty and injustice to our black brothers and sisters –– instigated by a poisonous gene in our nation’s DNA.
These horrors were discussed frequently with my family at the dinner table. Particularly with my activist mother who, despite being a kind and compassionate woman, was privately a soul plagued by deep depressions who had lost the capacity for hope.
But then it became 1963 –– that moment in time when the cultural Tsunami of the ‘60s was beginning to take shape –– gaining conviction as it crossed the globe, invading countries, disrupting the carefully mapped blueprints for lives of quiet desperation.
This call for change came to me via books, music and Eastern thought. In wave after wave of new perspectives, it pounded against the thin shell of my white middle-class childhood, demanding something new and different; an activity, a state of mind…but remained formless until finally crystalizing into a single objective: join The March On Washington.
On August 28th, 1963 I did so.
Early that morning, a friend and I made the long journey from New Haven to DC. I didn’t inform my parents I was going. I simply made up a shore story… and went. My reasoning was simple and telling. I wanted to avoid my mother’s negativity tainting my experience.
I tried brushing aside my guilt for this as I boarded the bus. But it accompanied me throughout the long bumpy ride.
Much of the detail and circumstance have fled from memory. But what thundered across my world was the awesome fact that I was there! I had arrived! I was in Washington DC, taking a stand with brothers and sisters. Metaphorically speaking, I was joining a march that I had been part of, ever since the day I learned how to walk.
Stepping down from the bus, I was immediately caught up in the jubilations of a kindred cause…the sight and sound of thousands and thousands of individuals flooding the National Mall…a pilgrimage transcending personal agendas to stand shoulder to shoulder with complete strangers….streaming down hills, stepping across roads to assemble in solidarity before a small stage cluttered with microphones and officials –– all overseen by the watchful eye of the Lincoln Memorial.
And there we were. Carrying banners, singing gospels and folksongs with purposeful joy that spread across this diversity of the human spirit …swollen with this moment of unity.
Thereafter, the inspiration rained down… talks by John Lewis and Roy Wilkins, performances by Mahalia Jackson, Marian Anderson, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez …to name a few. All setting the stage in emotional crescendo, to introduce me to the man who would become mentor and hero…the Rev. Martin Luther King. It was here that he gave his “I have a dream” speech…solidifying his meaning for this moment in time; that would echo his messages to us for generations to come. I listened with my heart as he guided us through his vision, his commitment to peace and brotherhood…and his call from the mountain top…free at last, free at last!
It was an epiphany for me…the puzzle had called its pieces, letting my inner, troubled fragments settle into something whole and lit.
Somewhere, during this moment, I spotted a woman, sitting alone beside the Reflecting Pool, looking out on the Washington Monument. Somehow familiar? Stepping closer, I recognized and approached. Standing behind her, smiling with tears in my eyes, I reached around my mother’s thin frame, and cupped her eyes with my hands. In a shaky voice I said,…”Guess who?”
She didn’t have to guess, Without a word, she reached out to touch my hand with her hand…a mother’s tenderness, then turned sideways to catch my eye. The look that passed between us over a half century ago is still traveling within me now as I write these words.
Raised in Connecticut, Thomas Lane is a multi-dimensional creative drawn to spaces where art, spirit, and social justice intersect. He is the author of The Artists’ Manifesto, a tribute to the power of the arts and its value to a society that has forgotten the precious nature of life.
In addition to creating a collection of poetry, screenplays and paintings, he recently recorded a CD of his songs, entitled Hotel Earth under the stage name Trakker.
Politically active since his teens, Thomas subsequently created The Helen Hudson Foundation, a nonprofit focused on social issues including homelessness, racism and the environment. He currently lives with his wife in Rhode Island.
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