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different than achieving a physical body or health routine, achieving this takes both time and commitment. “We start by breaking; by changing ourselves, breaking those generational curses that get passed on to our children, or children we’re around,” she shared, adding teachers and mentors have just as big of an impact on this as parents do. “Adults have a huge impact on children whether you’re a parent or not,” LaRee shared. “I feel like I’m here breaking generational trauma,” she continued. “Tragedies happen, but by having the consciousness of what we’re dealing with and developing healthy ways to deal with it. We’re just going to be happier and healthier.” The child of a mother fighting kidney disease and later being afflicted with it herself, LaRee brings a lot of personal experience to her practice. Applying personal experience to proven practices which help one not only heal, but blossom on the other side of facing topics which are often uncomfortable. “It’s the beginning,” she said of speaking one’s truth and identifying triggers, as well as traumas. “You don’t want to
s a society and a world, there is probably no better time to examine one’s mental wellness than the present day. With isolation, distance and for some fear, now being a very present part of personal history, looking at one’s wellness from the inside out some believe is critical to achieving life balance, as well as joy. “We are three parts: body, mind and spirit,” Miranda LaRee shared. Specializing as a SelfHealing Guide, TraumaInformed Life Coach and Resiliency Master, LaRee’s 209-based business Dawn Healing offers the community a number of workshops, as well as personal guidance for those desiring to dig deeper into their overall mental health and release of any trauma. LaRee recently sat down with 209 Magazine to offer an understanding of the importance, as well as connection, of mental health to overall wellness. “Your body has three components and if we’re not addressing all three then we’re still going to be out of homeostasis,” she said. “To bring it back into homeostasis and we have to get all three in line.” Yet it’s not something which one can achieve overnight. No
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