Sixth Edition Marquis Who’s Who INSIGHT 15 INSIGHT MARQUIS WHO′S WHO SIXTH EDITION SPRING 2024 What are two key behaviors/personality traits that allow you to be effective in your role? I believe people are valuable and have great worth; I love them, maybe like how God loves them. I love people the way they truly are, so I can help them find the changes they want. People really respond to being loved, being important, being valuable and being treated like they’re worthy. It’s important to provide validation and encouragement because those are loving qualities. What is the most important issue/challenge you are dealing with in your industry? One of the things I always fancied myself to be great with is trauma work with people who have PTSD. There’s a whole field out there I didn’t know about that started right around the time I graduated. So, I’ve been taking my advanced PTSD and trauma work to dig into how impactful trauma really is. I also help people not only take care of the emotions surrounding trauma but also learn to relax and step back from triggers that pull them back into unresolved trauma. You have to relax and feel that you’re safe, and then make a conscious left-brain, logical choice to step back and look at what’s actually going on. Self-care is far more important than we realize; tuning into yourself the way you tune into someone else and caring about yourself the way you care about other people is incredibly important. Otherwise, you won’t receive the healing love that you need, and you also won’t have much to offer. A wounded healer has a lot to offer because they’ve been wounded and healed, so they know the path to healing. Other people need to find a healing path, and it’s only available through self-care and listening to themselves. Writing, voice recording, just getting the expression out. There’s a saying I like that goes, “What is an emotion? If you cut off the E, it’s energy and motion.” It needs to move. If we don’t let our feelings move, they’re never going to flow, and we’ll never own our emotional brain. You need to let feelings flow, whether it’s through poetry, voice recording or anything else. Once you capture it, then you can relate to it. Anything you capture, you can come back to listen to it and understand it better. What innovations or technologies do you feel will shape the future of your industry? I like the idea of voice recording without video. People are going to ham it up on a video – if they’re looking at themselves, there’s more to criticize.
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