Stop Doubting Your Dreams
Take Risks Without Fear
Realize Your Full Potential
Episode #1 Drug of Choice
with guest Kimberly Valerie
Content Warning: Direct discussions of childhood abuse and violence.
Dawn Taylor welcomes Kimberley Valerie to the show to explore how early life trauma created Kimberley’s addiction to over-achieving. Dawn and Kimberley discuss the events, feelings, and deep denial that put Kimberley in a perfect storm of doing too much all the time as a way of coping.
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Dawn Taylor welcomes Kimberley Valerie to the show to explore how early life trauma created Kimberley’s addiction to over-achieving. Dawn and Kimberley discuss the events, feelings, and deep denial that put Kimberley in a perfect storm of doing too much all the time as a way of coping.
Kimberley’s childhood was filled with siblings she was parted from, a frequently absentee mom, physical violence, and extreme poverty. After she was beaten and placed in foster care, she received praise for good grades from the social worker who had helped her. She describes that moment as her first hit. It led to her chosen drug of achievement, recognition, over-work, and accolades.
Kimberley and Dawn explore all the ways in which trauma leaves a lasting imprint on someone’s life. Kimberley shares her particular insight into how the addiction to always be going, achieving, earning, creating, and working can be just as toxic and destructive as drug or alcohol addiction. And she has advice for how to spot the same denial-based masking and trauma responses from forming in your own life.
About Kimberley Valerie:
Kimberley Valerie was born in chaos, poverty and abuse. After suffering a horrific beating by her mothers boyfriend at the age of thirteen, she was then placed in foster care, never to live with her family of origin again. Out of her own lived experience, combined with her professional training, she now mentors other high performance, driven individuals to write their own WEALTH AND LIFE EXPANSION story through personal development, growth, healing and serving.
Credentials: Social Work, Certified Practitioner in S.I.T., NLP, Hypnotherapy, Life and Success Coach, TIME Techniques, and EFT.
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