Ep 59. Trauma, healing and high functioning anxiety with Grace Victory

Grace Victory is an award-winning creator, and trainee counsellor. She’s a TEDX speaker and has been awarded ‘Most Inspiring Role Model’ for InStyle Magazine’s Project 13. Over the last few years Grace has presented multiple TV shows, including “Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets” – one of the most watched documentaries on BBC3, achieving over 1.5 million views across BBC1 and BBC3 combined. Grace talks about problems that all young people and women face, as well as topics that are perceived taboo; therapy, sex, trauma, relationship dynamics, diet culture, self awareness and spirituality. Grace’s content has a focus of plus size fashion, healing the mind, body and spirit and the importance of personal development.We discuss:-High functioning anxiety -Grace shares her story of coming from childhood abuse to finding her own path to healing and training to be a counsellor -Why healing should be holistic  -Why you have to feel your feelings in order to heal them.  -Why we’ve lost our power and how to regain it  Come over to www.calmer-you.com/confidence to join my free 5 day confidence challenge – starting on 1st July I’ll lead you through 5 days of simple yet powerful exercises to grow your confidence, calm your inner critic, create a new positive self image and connect with other like-minded people so we can all support each other and cheer each other on. Please subscribe to ‘The Calmer you Podcast' in the podcast app or in iTunes to get the latest episodes and please leave me a review 🙂 Thanks so much for listening! TranscriptChloe:Hello, and welcome to The Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, ChloeBrotheridge. I’m a coach and a therapist and the author of The AnxietySolution, and a new book, Brave New Girl: Seven Steps to Confidence. So, thisweek I’m talking to the amazing Grace Victory, an award winning contentcreator, she’s also a trainee counsellor, she is a TEDX speaker and she’s beenawarded the ‘Most Inspiring Role Model Award’ for InStyle Magazine’s Project13. She’s presented multiple TV Shows including “Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets”– one of the most watched documentary on BBC 3. And in this inspiringconversation, we talk about high functioning anxiety, something that Graceexperiences. Sheshares the stories of coming from her own childhood abuse to finding her ownpath to healing and going on to train as a counsellor, and she discusses whyhealing should be holistic and also, why we might have to actually feel ourfeelings in order to heal them. And we also talk about why we've lost our powerand how we can start to regain it. I also want to invite you to come over to calmeryou.com/confidence on the first of July, I'm going to be leading a five dayconfidence challenge. I'm going to lead you through simple, yet powerfulexercises, to grow your confidence, calm your inner critic, create a newpositive self image and connect with other like minded people so that we canall support each other and cheer each other on as we go on this journeytogether. So, if you want to get involved in this free challenge, enter youremail address at calmeryou.com/confidence. So, let's get into the episode with Grace. Grace: Yeah,so I started making YouTube videos in 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.