Ep 114| Featuring: Delicia Niami

*Host's Note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Delicia Niami, author of the trilogy "Resilient AF" where she uses storytelling to find healing from childhood abuse.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey through constant childhood abuse, being kidnapped to Iraq by a father who didn't even know her birthday, looking for replacement parents, finding resilience and joy, leaning on "framily", looking for silver linings as she begins to realize the depths of her abuse
- Self-help books
- Happiness is not easy
- Helping people brings profound joy
- Only so much abuse one person can take
- Why she wanted to write her trilogy memoir
- Finding her own happy ending
- The freedom of letting go
- Self-respect
- Resiliency - picking up the pieces and making it something better
- Ask the hard questions
- Learn about your behaviors and why you do them
- Support systems are life changing
- Make room for positive relationships
- Innate resilience - how her body know what to do

GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. DBT
2. Mindfulness/meditation
3. Bessel van der Kolk's book "The Body Keeps the Score"
4. Breathwork and other avenues to recall trauma memories

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1.  Website
2. IG
3. Her books
4. Right now - the new book is on Kindle for only $0.99 -



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#childabuse #kidnapped #resilience #resilientaf #kissingasphalt #selfhelpbooks #happiness #joy #hardwork #storytelling #memoir #nocontact #toxicrelationships #lettinggo #framily