Growing Up With Schizophrenia: Medicinal Forgiveness, Healing Trauma & The Big Silence | Karena Dawn
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Will Cole sits down with wellness entrepreneur and mental health advocate Karena Dawn for an honest, powerful conversation about trauma, healing, and rebuilding your life. Karena shares her childhood navigating her mother’s schizophrenia, her own decade of darkness marked by depression and drug misuse, and the turning point that set her on a path toward movement, purpose, and recovery. They discuss vulnerability, spirituality, forgiveness, and the creation of both Tone It Up and The Big Silence Foundation. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:05.3 | Hi, it's Dr. Will Cole. |
| 0:08.8 | This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the art of being well. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you. the art of being well. What's up and welcome to the art of being well? |
| 0:29.4 | Guys, this is my public service announcement for everybody that listens to the podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | I put out about one to two new articles every single week. |
| 0:39.9 | I think of it as a companion to the podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | If you want further reading and empowerment on your health tools to optimize your health |
| 0:49.9 | with a variety of different health topics and the links to all the research are in there, the actionable tips, these in them are |
| 0:58.2 | recent articles. |
| 1:00.0 | There's one about your guide to the best food medicines for healthy bowel movements. |
| 1:05.6 | Another one is what breaks a fast and what doesn't break a fast, a full sort of fasting guide of sort of the top questions |
| 1:12.7 | that you all send to me about intermittent fasting |
| 1:15.5 | and more progressive types of fasting. |
| 1:17.7 | Another article about how to recognize |
| 1:19.5 | and treat parasitic infections. |
| 1:21.7 | When your stomach talks is another one, |
| 1:23.7 | the growls and grumbles explain, |
| 1:25.3 | they're talking about the gut-brain connection |
| 1:27.4 | and the enteric nervous system and the vagus nerve. So explained, talking about the gut-brain connection and the |
| 1:28.0 | interic nervous system and the vagus nerve. So those are some of the new ones, but there are thousands |
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