Mary Firestone: Trusting the Dawn: Choosing Freedom and Joy After Trauma

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, Mary Firestone survived the tragic Montecito mudslide caused by 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home and more than a hundred others. In the wake of this experience, Mary began a healing journey that led to the creation of her new book, Trusting the Dawn: Choosing Freedom and Joy After Trauma. In this podcast, Sounds True’s founder, Tami Simon, speaks with Mary about her personal story and the lessons she offers in the book, including how we share the narratives of our past traumas; the difference between being victimized and remaining in victimhood; reframing our experiences versus spiritual bypassing; the importance of integration for the healing of trauma; MDMA, ketamine, and holotropic breathwork therapies; the “personal I” and the “depersonalized I”; initiation experiences; overcoming fear around speaking your truth; hypnosis and past-life regression as a pathway to wholeness; meditation, EMDR, flower essences, and other widely accessible alternative healing modalities; the power of choice; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.2	to introduce you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.6	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.3	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:27.8	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.2	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:42.8	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Mary Firestone.
0:47.9	Mary is a graduate of Princeton University, and she has a master's degree in clinical psychology
0:53.2	from Pepperdine University.
0:55.7	Her own transformative epiphanies led her, along with her sister Lucy, to found their
1:02.4	company Firestone Sisters in 2012, with the aim of providing for people healing and growth
1:10.0	opportunities.
1:11.8	With SoundsTrue, Mary Firestone has written a new book.
1:16.1	It's called Trusting the Dawn, How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma.
1:22.5	It's a very personal book where Mary shares her own healing journey through trauma.
1:30.0	She also interviews people, experts, researchers, and people who themselves have gone through
1:36.9	transformational journeys healing trauma, and in it she then extends a hand to us wherever
1:45.8	we are, with a whole set of tools that we can use in her words to trust the dawn.
1:54.8	Here's my conversation with Mary Firestone.
2:01.0	Mary has a way to introduce yourself better and to give people a context really for trusting
2:07.1	the dawn your new book.
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