This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore our spiritual concepts,

tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik records practitioner and

teacher. I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide or companion on your path

for a little while.

To check out my services and courses, please visit josephinehardmann.com.

My special guest for this episode is Jessica Flanagan Brown. She is a clinical nutritionist and author

of The Loving Diet and has been practicing clinical nutrition for 25 years specializing in gut

restoration. In her coaching practice, Jessica focuses on disordered eating, especially in midlife.

She is getting certified as a compassion teacher and educator through Stanford University's

applied compassion training program.

She helps people get in touch with the healing power of the heart through a practical approach.

So thank you for being here, Jessica.

Hi, Josephine. Thanks for having me. So can we start with a little bit of your backstory? And what was it for you that kind of broke your heart open and basically drove you into this powerful compassion work.

The personal story for me was my own suffering. My suffering began in earnest in a way that I had to

pay attention to it and not just sweep it under the rug was after

I was married and my first husband and I split up. And it was a case of infidelity. And I realized when

that moment happened that I did not have the coping skills that I thought that I had.

You know, I've been a long time meditator. I had been in therapy, but all of a sudden

I found myself really crippled by the grief and the pain and not knowing or understanding

that I could trust myself to go through the process

of my own pain because of the childhood that I had.

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