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Aundi Kolber

Aundi Kolber

Podcasts

You can find me at various podcasts by clicking on the links below:

Typology with Ian Morgan Cron

Coffee + Crumbs- Motherhood and Trauma

The Lazy Genius with Kendra Adachi

The Next Right Thing with Emily P. Freeman

At Sea with Justin McRoberts

When We Speak with Tasha Hunter

The Healing Trauma Podcast

Enneagram and Marriage

Your Enneagram Coach Podcast

That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs

The Faith and Healing Podcast

Our Island In The City Podcast

Craft and Character with Steve Carter

Go and Tell Gals with Jess Connolly

An Interview with Morgan Harper Nichols

Staying The Course Podcast

Restoring the Soul Interview, Part I

Restoring the Soul Interview, Part II

Restoring the Soul, Healing Trauma: Getting Unstuck and Becoming Whole Part I

Restoring the Soul, Healing Trauma: Getting Unstuck and Becoming Whole Part II

Cultivated with Mike Cosper

Let’s Be Real with Nicole Unice

Unhurried Living Podcast

The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

The Faith and Mental Wellness Podcast with Brittney Moses

The Puddcast with Jonathan Puddle

The Complicated Heart Podcast (EMDR)

Still Becoming with Monica DiCristina

Dear Daughters with Susie Davis

CXMH Podcast (trauma & attachment)

CXMH Podcast (Grief)

Nothing is Wasted Podcast

Fierce and Lovely

otherWISE with Casey Tygrett

Moms Struggling Well

The Crystal Paine Show

The Revelation Wellness Show

The Presence Project

This Good Word, Ep 153

This Good Word, Ep 214

Faith and Feminism, Ep 25

Faith and Feminism, Ep 68

Noises from the Attic , Ep 17

Noises from the Attic , Ep 41

Hope for the Lonely Podcast

She Walks In Truth with Carrie Robaina

Faith Conversations

Poema Podcast (Try Softer)

Poema Podcast (Grief)

Live it Well

Impossible Beauty

all shall be well

Kindled Podcast

Finding Holy with Ashley Hales

Changing Faith with Michael Hidalgo

Upside Down Podcast: Episode 36

Upside Down Podcast: Episode 44

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I’ve been in a writing cave finishing edits for my I’ve been in a writing cave finishing edits for my latest manuscript (IYKYN)—and as I work on a particularly vulnerable and painful story, I am holding these words from the inimitable Henri Nouwen like a prayer: 
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“When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.” 
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May it be so. #trysofter #healanyway #stronglikewater #cptsd #woundedhealers
May you find the way home.🙏 #trysofter #takewhatyo May you find the way home.🙏 #trysofter #takewhatyouneed #fawn #cptsd #stronglikewater 
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*This pattern can also occur with other types of relational trauma. However, it tends to be especially pertinent for survivors of childhood trauma due to the power differential of children with adults and the way kids often adapt by using hyper vigilance, over accommodation, over functioning, and/or fawning to navigate these environments.
Take What You Need // However this weekend finds y Take What You Need // However this weekend finds you, I hope you feel loved. 🫶🏻 #MothersDay #TrySofter #Cptsd #infertility #beloved
Learning to believe your own experience is a vital Learning to believe your own experience is a vital part of healing from relational trauma, especially experiences like narcissistic abuse. For survivors, it’s often been safer to discount your internal world than it is to believe yourself. And this makes sense, because we were wired for connection. But connection was never meant to be a weapon and it’s only when we start to be grounded in reality that we can untangle love or friendship from harm. 
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As we begin to have to have capacity to honor the truth of our experience, we develop the inner trust to live more and more in alignment. May it be so.
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If it feels like a resource, this practice is for you. #takewhatyouneed #trysofter #stronglikewater #beloved #cptsd
Well, I don’t know how your week is ending (ahem, Well, I don’t know how your week is ending (ahem, greetings to you Maycemeber); but I have found myself full up. I have been full with a whole bunch of goodness; good work, but also intensity. Projects and commitments that require a me that is grounded, resourced, & clear. It’s often in those times that I especially remember we are invited to do the gentle & fierce work of keeping our eyes out for goodness. Even the smallest bits matter. What a paradox; its goodness & beauty & connection that help fuel us to meet the difficult demands of being a human. And particularly as a trauma survivor, I am reminded that I, that each of us, get to participate in our own repair. What sacred work. 
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If it feels like a resource, I’ll leave you with this:
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May mercy and goodness ground you in your body, your relationships, and in your place. Made the co-regulating love of the God of the universe be in, above, and around you. May it lead you Home again + again.
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Thank you to @benrector for a fabulous concert. Grateful for my writing pal @ashlee_eiland & her amazing staff at Living Stones for being a wonderful & attentive audience today. Big love & gratitude to a husband (@bckolber) + kiddos who light up with joy alongside me, and thank you to @stewartdantec for sharing the fabulous James Baldwin quote.
Hand over heart // There’s no shame in surviving p Hand over heart // There’s no shame in surviving pain. Coming to honor the truth of our experience is not an indication of our weakness but a move toward deeper integration.🕯️
Sending love. #trysofter #fawn #beloved #stronglikewater #cptsd
Good morning 🌿 Take what you need.🙏 . Inhale: My Good morning 🌿 
Take what you need.🙏
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Inhale: My work is not to prove myself
Exhale: It’s to be myself 
#beloved #trysofter #compassionateattention #stronglikewater #takewhatyouneed
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