Susan Stephens is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and an Intuitive Counsellor, and the founder of Liberated Living in Hamilton, Ontario where she specializes in helping people to overcome addictions, trauma, negative recurrent patterns, depression and anxiety. Over the years, Susan has helped thousands of men and women to transform emotional pain, elevate health, cultivate conscious relationships and connect to the divinity within and without. In this episode, Susan and I open up about some of the experiences in our lives that put us on the not-always-pleasant paths that we have found ourselves on. We talk about childhood trauma, feelings of self-worth (or lack thereof), the traps of success, why many therapists are too shallow (and that's a good thing) and embracing our inner bitch. This episode gets vulnerable very quickly so there are a number of stretches of silence and some sniffles to choke back some tears. What can I say? No one ever said Evolving is easy. Or pretty. But it's the first of a few episodes that will feature Susan as I will continue to work with her over the coming weeks and months to go deeper, both for physical health as well as emotional health. If you want to learn more about Susan's work, check out www.liberatedliving.ca or join her private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/561484324447592. 4:03 - Susan's shares about her past and alcoholism. 11:19 - Susan shares about her experiences with therapy and AA. 15:32 - overcompensating and a discussion about orthorexia. 16:35 - the quest for success. 23:16 - manifestation is now a thing. 26:45 - a conversation on doing vs. being. 33:34 - the more woo, the better. 34:16 - the spiritual journey is not for wusses. 38:33 - a conversation about divorce. 40:08 - from zero to one and back to zero again. 43:06 - the biggest issue in our culture. 44:57 - a conversation about heartbreak. 49:17 - Ronan's first spiritual realization. 53:41 - this sh*t is bananas. 59:24 - compassion as betrayal. 1:06:31 - anger as an act of self-worth. 1:09:14 - the law of attraction.