In this powerful conversation, Teresa Syms shares her journey of healing after a lifetime of abuse, trauma, and grief. Following a near-fatal fall that left her with a serious back injury, she was guided to face unresolved emotional wounds and make her own healing a priority. 💫

Through NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and hypnotherapy, Teresa discovered how powerful self-care and healthy boundaries truly are. She also shares how she learned to quiet the chaos of constantly serving others and begin living with intention and inner peace. 🧠✨

Her message is simple and powerful: the strength and answers you seek already exist within you. 💖

✨ You do not have to walk the healing journey alone.

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Episode Summary:

Teresa's journey of healing and transformation @ 00:00

Teresa shares her personal story of overcoming a lifetime of abuse, trauma, and grief through discovering the power of NLP, timeline therapy, and hypnotherapy. After a near-fatal fall that left her with a serious back injury, she was forced to confront her unresolved emotional wounds and make her own healing a priority.

The importance of self-care and boundaries @ 06:32

Teresa and Melissa discuss the importance of self-care and setting healthy boundaries, rather than constantly putting the needs of others first. They emphasize that self-care is the most selfless act, as it allows you to show up as your best self for others.

Quieting the chaos and living intentionally @ 29:01

Teresa shares how she has learned to quiet the chaos in her life and intentionally choose what she wants, rather than just serving everyone else. She describes the daily practices and mindset shifts that have helped her maintain inner peace and clarity, even amidst external challenges.

Reaching out for support and guidance @ 35:25

Teresa provides information on how listeners can connect with her to receive coaching and support on their own journeys of healing and transformation. She emphasizes the importance of reaching out and not trying to do it all alone.

Final words of wisdom @ 37:25

Teresa leaves the audience with the message that the answers and strength they need are already within them. She encourages listeners to go deep within themselves, release the need for willpower alone, and trust that the solutions are there waiting to be uncovered.

About the Guest:

Teresa Syms is the founder of ASCENDU Coaching, an award winning author, and a highly respected Master NLP and Time Line Therapy® Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, and certified CBT coach. She is known for her deeply intuitive, solutions focused approach to personal transformation and emotional healing.

Teresa’s work is rooted in her own powerful journey. After surviving a debilitating back fracture and the profound grief of losing four loved ones within six months, she found herself searching for a way to reclaim her life. In that search, she discovered the body of work that ultimately saved her—NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and Hypnotherapy. Through these modalities, she rebuilt her identity, released years of trauma, and uncovered a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.

Today, Teresa brings that same transformative power to others. She helps clients break through unconscious limitations, heal emotional wounds, and create aligned, meaningful change from the inside out. With a unique blend of mastery, compassion, and lived resilience, she guides individuals toward clarity, confidence, and true personal freedom.

Teresa is an award-winning author for her book, A Century of Secrets, and hosts the podcast Powering Through Life, where she shares real, honest conversations and practical tools that inspire listeners to rise from adversity and step boldly into their authentic lives.

Contact:

Website: AscendUCoaching.com

Email: info@ascenducoaching.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/teresasyms

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teresa.syms.5

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teresa_syms/?hl=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@teresasyms5163

Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Century-Secrets-Teresa-Syms

TOPICS:

The Power of the UCM - Willpower is NOT the answer

-how NLP & TLT taught me how to recover from a lifetime of trauma and abuse,

-how I recovered from a back fracture at 61 years old, without medical assistance, while living in deep grief from 3 family deaths in 6 months, and the death of my beautiful dog

-How Grief Held Me Prisoner

-The ability to quiet the chaos and go after what you want in life

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/yourguidedhealthjourney

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