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Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Episode 310: Turn Pain Into Power with Sydney Williams

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7517 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week Sydney Williams joins me on the show! Sydney is a former collegiate athlete and competitive skydiver (and it was news to me this is a competitive sport!) who unexpectedly found herself on the receiving end of a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis while grappling with unresolved trauma from a decades-old sexual assault. So what did she do? She set out on a mission to turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and 80 miles later, she founded Hiking My Feelings to help others tap into the mind-body connection and healing power of nature that helped kick her self-limiting beliefs and disease into remission.  In this episode, Sydney and I had a conversation about enduring hardships, the choices we make in the wake of them, and how we cope and make peace with our pain. We also talked about how Sydney’s hiking trips led her to appreciate her body, as well as, accepting and reversing her Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis. Her story is an incredible one. Our conversation was a beautiful one. I hope you’ll listen.  In this episode, you’ll hear: What led Sydney to hike the Trans-Catalina Trail, completely unprepared, armed only with delusional self-confidence (5:21) Some of the moments and lessons from her first backpacking trip (12:57) Embracing her body just the way it is and taking deliberate action to make her social media feed a place to find positivity and inspiration (13:50) Her Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis, how she handled it and what she did to reverse it (18:22) What it means to unpack your trauma and how Sydney began to unpack her own following a sexual assault (29:03) One step survivors of trauma can take to start the healing process (40:44) http://yourkickasslife.com/310   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I had gone through this total just excavation of anything my inner critic wanted to say while I was

0:36.2

going up this climb because it was one of the hardest climbs on the island. As I was doing it, I was feeling a lot of physical resistance, but more than that, a lot of emotional resistance. So all of those, like, nasty, negative things that your inner critic says, it's just like on loop all the time. I actually, like, slowed down, didn't take those as truth, examined them, released them, and then like hyped myself back up

0:55.4

to fully eradicate those things from my inner dialogue. And by the time that I got to the top

1:00.4

of that really high climb where I'm going through this process, I felt like an astronaut

1:04.0

getting ready to blast off in outer space. Like I felt on fire. This is your kickass live podcast episode number 310 with guest, Sydney Williams.

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This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no BS guide to self-help and

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bad assery.

1:25.3

Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.

1:31.6

And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy, Andrea Owen.

1:39.4

Hey there, Ask Kickers. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad that you are here with me this week.

1:46.0

If you missed last week's episode, I'm going to highly encourage you to go over and check it out.

1:51.1

It was all about the decade coming to an end. I asked a lot of powerful questions on that episode,

1:58.2

and there is also a free PDF for those of you who like to dig a

2:01.8

little bit deeper, who like to spend some time digging into these questions and journal them out.

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Or even if you just want to think about them, you have them at your fingertips. So that was episode

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309. And next week, we're going to be looking ahead at the decade coming up. Yes, the year coming up,

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but the entire decade as well. I'm excited to bring you that episode coming up. This week,

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I have such a beautiful conversation with my friend Sidney Williams. And just a heads up,

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we had a little bit of technical difficulties and the audio isn't

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as amazing as I would like it to be, but it is definitely good enough.

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