LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

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What happens when the only survivor of a horrific crash, burned over 70% of her body as a child, grows up, buries her pain for 40 years, and then finally decides to stop merely surviving and start truly living?That’s the story Tracy shared in her conversation with Walt - a raw, emotional journey from suppression and silent suffering to radical healing, self-ownership, and helping others become “trauma rock stars.”At 12 years old, Tracy survived a devastating car accident that killed her cousins and left her with life-threatening burns and a head injury. As if that weren’t enough, just a few years later, in high school, she was drugged and sexually assaulted by several boys at a party. She told no one for decades.Back in the 1980s, Tracy explains, there were almost no tools and very little understanding of trauma: “We didn’t have the tools that we have now, even the word trauma was very taboo. Talking about mental health was taboo.”Walt gently reflects the core truth that so many survivors need to hear: “It wasn’t your responsibility anyway what they were doing, of course, entirely on them.”For 40 years, Tracy suppressed everything. She describes it not as living, but simply existing. That began to shift during the pandemic, when she started experimenting with guided meditations at home. Meditation quickly became more than a calm-down tool; it was a mirror: “I started getting these downloads of information, and I realized, like, I was a mess, and I had never really dealt with anything.”Walt asks how those “downloads” affected her, and Tracy is honest about the messy beginning: meditation was frustrating, like “golf” - some days great, some days terrible, but she kept going.Over time, she learned about concepts like the higher self, started guided higher-self meditations, and the truth of her unprocessed trauma finally surfaced.Then came a turning point: MDMA-assisted therapy.Curious and open-minded, Tracy researched MDMA for months after reading about it in a book by another survivor. She eventually found a nearby therapy center, went through a detailed medical intake, and was paired with a therapist, Allie, whom she now calls life-changing.Tracy is clear: this is not street ecstasy, but a carefully controlled, micro-dosed, therapeutic setting. What happened in that session was nothing short of transformational: “It was like a flash of everything that made sense, all the bad decisions I made, people I had in my life - I got all these answers, but it was positive.”She discovered hidden survivor’s guilt, forgave herself for past choices, and grieved the life she might have had - all while viewing herself through what she describes as a lens of love and compassion. A year later, she says her “happy chemicals” still feel switched on.Walt highlights a key mindset shift: realizing that while we can’t always control what happens to us, we can choose how we respond over and over again. Tracy now notices triggers in her body, especially her nervous system, and responds with curiosity instead of panic: “Sometimes I’ll get a really bad pain in my shoulder, and I know I’m about to get triggered, I’m so in touch with my nervous system now.”Her “hot mess,” she says, has become her superpower, the very foundation of her Trauma Rock Stars podcast, her upcoming memoir, and her healing programs.She’s sharing every messy, miraculous step so others don’t have to stay stuck for 40 years, the way she did.Her message is simple and powerful: no one is coming to save you, but that’s not bad news. It’s your invitation to become your own hero.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/tracy-smaldinoFollow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#TraumaHealing #SurvivorToThriver #TraumaRockStars #MentalHealthAwareness #NervousSystemHealing #MeditationJourney #SurvivorsGuilt #GenerationalTrauma #SelfCompassion #HealingJourney

“How many of my patients would I even be seeing if they’d changed their behavior earlier?”That unspoken question hung in the air throughout Walt Thiessen’s powerful conversation with cardiologist Dr. Bilal Ahmed on LOA Today: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Wellness.This wasn’t a dry medical lecture. It was an emotional, honest look at how our daily choices quietly shape whether our final 10-15 years are vibrant or spent fighting chronic disease.Walt opened from a deeply personal place. At 69, with family members who lived past 100, he knows longevity is in his genes but he also knows he could still sabotage it if he doesn’t care for his body. On a recent hike, he and another walker easily outpaced their peers. Many in their age group, he noted, are “hobbling around” or stuck on the couch.His haunting question: “What are you doing? Or more precisely, what aren’t you doing?”Dr. Bilal answered from both head and heart. He shared how his grandfather’s heart condition inspired his path into cardiology, and how he now challenges the purely “pharmacology-driven” model by focusing on inflammation and the gut microbiome.He explained that heart disease isn’t just about “high cholesterol” anymore. Inflammation, driven in part by an unhealthy gut, activates LDL particles, irritates blood vessels, and leads to plaque and heart attacks. A healthy gut microbiome, he said, can even change how well people respond to cancer treatments and influence diabetes and cholesterol.But the most emotional moments came when they dove into personal responsibility and the mental barriers to change. Walt shared about his ex‑wife’s long struggle to make even small, consistent lifestyle shifts, despite having once reversed Graves’ disease through mindset and emotional work.Dr. Bilal didn’t dismiss that struggle. He sees it daily in patients working multiple jobs, raising kids, exhausted, and sedentary. Sometimes, he said, it isn’t “willpower” so much as fear of the unknown and a distorted idea of what activity must look like:People imagine they must suddenly hit 10,000 steps or “kill themselves at the gym.” But research shows huge benefits starting as low as 2,000 steps a day, increasing gradually. “It doesn’t take as much as you think it does,” he emphasized.Walt pushed a tough question many people whisper: Are doctors even motivated to prevent disease if it means fewer patients and less income?Dr. Bilal’s answer was raw and direct. He described half‑days with 26 - 29 patients, giving him maybe 10 minutes per person, barely enough for “hello and goodbye,” let alone real counseling.That’s why he founded Lylah Health, digging into over 79 randomized controlled trials on the gut microbiome and identifying specific probiotics and postbiotics that can lower LDL by 15 - 21%, comparable to some prescription drugs when combined with better eating and activity. No magic pills. No free rides. Just tools to help prevent that dreaded late‑life decline.Co‑host Anne Marie Young brought it home emotionally, reflecting on her own weight gain and menopause, the danger of being “on my bottom all day,” and the power of small, doable changes like hula‑hooping in the living room while cooking.Because, as Dr. Bilal reminds us, there is no silver bullet. There is only your body, from the moment you open your eyes the first time until you close them for the last, and the choices you make in between.Your future self is begging you: start now.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/bilal-ahmedBilal Ahmed's Website: https://lylahhealth.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#HeartHealth #GutHealth #Microbiome #Inflammation #PreventiveCare #HealthyAging #MediterraneanDiet

What do you do when the pain feels like it will never end?That quiet, hidden question was underneath everything in this heart-opening conversation about healing, grief, and the power of energy.Walt began by sharing the rawness of losing his cat Joy just three and a half weeks earlier and then discovering that Joy’s sister, Harmony, is facing the same kidney condition.The emotional whiplash of back‑to‑back losses brought him face-to-face with a powerful truth: “It’s rough. It’s really, really rough. It’s almost like life is piling it on top of you.”From there, Walt and life coach and LOA teacher Joel opened up a deeply human exploration of what healing really is and what it isn’t.Joel made an honest admission that many people are afraid to say out loud: “The loss of my son, TJ. I don’t think I’ve healed from that. I don’t think I will ever.”Instead, Joel describes living in what he calls “remission from the grief,” where the grief is not gone, but it no longer dominates every moment. Healing, in this sense, is not erasing the pain, but learning to live around it, to integrate it, and to let it shape us without completely breaking us.Walt reframed healing as the decrease in the intensity and frequency of breakdown moments over time. He recalled how, after putting Joy down, he collapsed into tears dozens of times a day, then watched those episodes slowly lessen. The pain didn’t vanish, but it became less constant, less overwhelming, more survivable.The conversation turned from emotional healing to physical and energetic healing, especially around Harmony’s surprising improvement.Harmony had stopped eating. The prognosis was that once she declined, improvement was unlikely. Yet after receiving Reiki, focused love, and attention, she began eating again, sometimes even without the appetite medication.Walt asked a powerful question that many quietly wonder: “Isn’t this an example of how, through the power of our thoughts or the power of our emotion, our love, that we can actually help somebody else?”Joel responded by sharing research and stories about energy healing and distant intention, where people improved even when they didn’t know anyone was praying for or focusing on them. He pointed out that while modern medicine has limits, the body’s capacity to heal, under the right emotional and energetic conditions, goes “way beyond the comprehension of modern medicine.”Walt and Joel also questioned the rigid structures of modern medicine and institutional thinking. They discussed:Doctors constrained by corporate employersMedical standards that keep moving the goalpostsThe pressure to follow party lines in medicine, religion, and addiction treatmentThe courage (and risk) of quietly practicing a more expansive view of healingThe deeper takeaway: healing is personal, individual, and often far more possible than we’re told. It may involve medicine, but it must also involve mindset, environment, belief, support, and energy.Joel’s closing thought captured the heart of the conversation: “We are far more capable of healing than anybody even realizes. I don’t think we scratch the surface of that part of healing.”In the end, this wasn’t just a conversation about death, illness, and systems. It was about choosing to believe in our own capacity to heal, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - even when life gives us every reason to give up.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/healingFollow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#HealingJourney #GriefAndGrowth #EnergyHealing #Reiki #LawOfAttraction #EmotionalHealing #PetLoss #SelfAdvocacy #HolisticHealth #MindBodySpirit #LOAToday #ConsciousLiving #SpiritualAwakening #PowerOfLove #Resilience