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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid,

get real, because we are all in this digital space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. Today we are in for an absolute treat. We're going to be talking about navigating through life changes, relationships, toxic cycles, and everything in between. To be honest, I don't even know what we're going to talk about. We're going to get into it. Please welcome Brittany Newell to the show. Thank you so much for coming. Tell us a little bit

about yourself. To be honest, I read your bio and I was like, no, I can't tell this story. You go ahead.

I would love for you to share a little bit about you and what you do, which speaks volumes into how

excited I am to have you here today. Absolutely. Yeah. So I am by trade a licensed clinician,

so I do mental health. I have been licensed since 2014, and I started my career off doing,

working in trauma. So I started doing end-of-life brief at M.B. Anderson. And then I transitioned

from there, going into PTSD and combat treatment. So I was working

with veterans who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, coming home, helping them readapt back into a

normal society. And so I did PTSD treatment for a while while also working on inpatient

units with women, teaching them different things about themselves,

about their emotions, how to communicate, how to make better life decisions.

And so my entire career has always been centered around crisis and trauma and helping people

navigate those situations.

And then around 2017, I started my own coaching practice where I was working with people that I got

energized with working around. And those were people who weren't in crisis, but they were having a

hard time just navigating where they wanted their lives to go and really putting themselves in the

driver's seat of their lives. And I was able to resonate with where they were coming from because I was definitely someone who always said I played life by the rules. I was the person who was like, okay, they say go to school, get a good job, graduate. Like I just check the boxes. And then you check the boxes and you look up one day and you're like, I don't like this life. Now what? So what do you do when you've done everything you were supposed to do and you're still not happy? And so I found myself in that place and it took me navigating and learning how to find my voice, how to make my own decisions, even if it made someone else mad. How do I communicate what I really want instead of trying to please other people and take

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