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Today I Am Alive

Margaret Aberdeen
Today I Am Alive
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  • Why Vulnerability Is A Necessity
    Margaret talks about why it is okay to be vulnerable when it comes to our emotions, and how nature's very own vulnerability might hold the key to being more resilient through its own vulnerability. KEY TAKEAWAYS When stress, fear and worry begin to creep in to you life, relax and let your mind sort through them in its own way. Be an observer. Even nature knows that the best way to weather a storm is to allow yourself to be bent and shaped by the wind itself - to go with the flow. Cultural norms dictate that vulnerability is something negative and to be avoided for fear of being criticised. But this is not the way to true growth. Vulnerability is the core of all emotions, and we must face what it means to be truly vulnerable - shame, fear and struggle for worthiness - if we want to be fully human. BEST MOMENTS 'The trees love me for who I am' 'I learned to surrender to emotions' 'Vulnerability is a core factor for weathering storms' 'I decided to listen to my inner tutor' VALUABLE RESOURCES Priceless Roles of a Mother' [email protected]    CONTACT METHODFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/ Email: [email protected] ABOUT THE HOST A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…
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  • Loving And Healing with Breast Cancer
    This week, Margaret is joined by yoga teacher, healer, mother, and guardian of love, Anna Love, whose mission is to empower the world through teaching them to embrace the art of self-love. But the journey has not always been a simple one for Anna, having two years ago been diagnosed with breast cancer. In this episode, Anna shares the story of how she overcame one of life's most difficult hurdles through the power of nature and the vibrations of love. KEY TAKEAWAYS Challenges such as cancer can always be re-framed as examples of our strength. Overcoming these things shows us what we are capable of. Cancer patients are instantly categorised as victims and sufferers of fear. But everything in life is a choice, including factors such as this. We can choose to be a victim, or we can choose the path of healing and empowerment. Intuition is a super power in itself. We have been conditioned not to obey the common sense that steers us through life. This needs to change. There is nothing wrong with prioritising ourselves over others, especially when we are in a place of healing. Stop feeling guilty and look after yourself wholeheartedly. BEST MOMENTS 'Cancer makes you a superhero' 'Everything is a choice' 'We've lost our common sense' 'I decided to take responsibility for my own life' VALUABLE RESOURCES Priceless Roles of a Mother' [email protected]    CONTACT METHODFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/ Email: [email protected] ABOUT THE GUEST Anna Love is full of gratitude and is a student of life. She has been teaching Yoga & studying the mind-body connection for over 15 years. Anna is a single mother with 3 children and has a Yoga & Healing space in East London, where she holds space as a yoga teacher, healer, guardian & Warrior of love. Her passion is to witness the immense empowerment, healing & transformation that occurs through love & the embodiment of self-love. www.thepranaspace.com Instagram: https://instagram@thepranaspace Instagram: https://instagram@pranaspaceanna Book Referral: The Encyclopaedia of Ailments and Diseases by Jacques Martel  ABOUT THE HOST A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…
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  • Awakening of ThyWomb & The Divine Feminine
    Join Margaret as she talks to Reiki Practitioner and Womb Goddess Siobhan Emin-Prentice. Siobhan opens up about how she healed herself from trauma and endometriosis, talking about the tools and methods she used and how she know helps and supports other women to do the same. Siobhan talks about her passion for all things surrounding the divine feminine and what that means for women and why now is the time for the define feminine to rise and start to align with mother earth and our sisters to live our truth.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Siobhan has healed herself from endometriosis and sexual trauma naturally and is passionate about sharing everything she learnt to help others. Working in women’s refuges allowed Siobhan to learn a tremendous amount about the struggles of other women and awakened her to start the process of healing herself. Our ancestors were more aware of their womb and bodies including their menstrual cycles, allowing them to live in accordance with them. Modern life and things such as the contraceptive pill throw women off balance. If we gossip and talk about others, we break the divine feminine and sisterhood, we need to come together as one, as women. We live in a masculine world and it’s time for the define feminine to rise and start to align with mother earth and our sisters to live our truth. To truly heal yourself you need to have trust and faith in yourself and listen to yourself. Sound healing helps bring up the stagnation of emotions, allowing yourself to heal from within. We carry the pain of the generations that went before us. Healing is a process, and we have to take responsibility for it as individuals and do the work. BEST MOMENTS ‘The more you hold your womb and you talk to her, eventually she’ll respond” ‘We haven’t been taught how to sit with the divine feminine because we live in a masculine world’ ‘It was showing me what my body needed to release, so I actually thank the endometriosis’ ‘Just know you can heal and when you trust thyself you can free thyself’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Priceless Roles of a Mother' [email protected]    CONTACT METHODFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/ Email: [email protected] ABOUT THE GUEST Siobhan Emin-Prentice has a background in counselling, psychology, mental health, social care and education with young people, children, elderly and families. She has worked in women's refuges, schools, and more. She is a Reiki Practitioner, Womb Goddess, practicing Shamanism through sound healing and shamanic practices. Siobhan takes women on deep journeys within and creates safety, sisterhood and sacred spaces for womben to come together through her womb ceremonies. Siobhan also is an artist, spoken word artist, creating magic through jewellery of crystals, natural healing remedies. She uses Turkish belly dancing, African sounds and drumming to help release trauma and ancestral blockages. She uses movement, sound through encouraging wombmen to speak their truth and sing, making sounds to release, feel, be seen and heard.  Contacts Details: Email: [email protected] Website: www.freethyself.co.uk Intagram: https://instagram.com/3freethyself?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg== Instagran: https://instagram.com/goddesstouch88?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==ABOUT THE HOST A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…
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  • The Hidden World of Endometriosis
    Margaret is joined by intersectional gender specialist, Dr Gurpreet Kaur, to discuss her incredible journey as an endometriosis survivor, what the condition is and how it manifests within sufferers, and how we can best help those suffering with this condition. KEY TAKEAWAYS Endometriosis is when the lining of the uterus grows externally to the uterus itself, implanting itself upon other organs in your pelvic area. Sufferers of this condition endure an accumulation of blood, which cannot exit, and it can manifest itself as extreme pain and inflammation. Endometriosis is far more common than we may believe, with over 190 million women suffering globally, amounting to one in ten women on the planet. Because this is a hormonal condition, sufferers see a lot of weight fluctuation. This makes holding a stable weight almost impossible. It also brings on chronic fatigue, meaning that enthusiasm and daily tasks are made more difficult. BEST MOMENTS 'It is a reproductive issue that is very common' 'There was massive pain every month, to the point where I could not function' 'it's such an under-studied and under-researched condition' VALUABLE RESOURCES Priceless Roles of a Mother' [email protected]    CONTACT METHODFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/ Email: [email protected] ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Gurpreet Kaur is an intersectional gender specialist. She received her B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees from the National University of Singapore and has a Ph.D. in Gender and Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Literature from the University of Warwick. From disempowerment to empowerment, Dr Gurpreet Kaur is here to share her journey as an endometriosis survivor. She was on a wheelchair for five years, and the steps she took to survive and rise like Phoenix. Contact details: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurpreet-kaur-phd ABOUT THE HOST A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…
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  • Surrender To Your Emotions
    We seem to live in a fix-it world. Margaret discusses why sometimes uncertainty or discomfort is exactly where we need to be. Why we should live an emotional existence, should give in to the voice of our heart for life's journey, how the lessons of nature itself can be applied to our own journey of change, and why embracing both negative and positive emotions can be the richest source of growth to help us learn far more about ourselves than we may have realised.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Life is made up of challenges that test our emotions. We are told that some of these emotional responses are bad and should be shunned. It's natural to want to avoid these emotions, but when we shun negatives, we also inevitably shun positives. Only by embracing all emotions can we become fully-formed, high-functioning human beings. It's okay to feel sad, scared or anger. They teach us about ourselves. Every difficult life situation can either result in fruitlessness and folly, or provide personal and spiritual growth. The result is up to us. You always have three basic choices in how you respond to situations - to fight and tough it out, flee and not deal with it, or freeze and become numb. BEST MOMENTS 'There's no comfortable way to say this - sometimes life sucks' 'It's important to know that both types of emotions are necessary' 'What you resist, persists' 'Our feelings can either set us free or freak us out' VALUABLE RESOURCES Priceless Roles of a Mother' [email protected]    CONTACT METHODFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/ Email: [email protected] THE HOST A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…
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About Today I Am Alive

Today I AM Alive is a series of podcasts, to inspire others who have been through similar traumas to switch off the victim role and rise like the Phoenix to grow beyond to live a fulfilling and fruitful life. For example: Why Selfishness Isn’t Selfish? How To Find Your True Love Soulmate? Why Your Past Matters? How to Heal for Real Within?  Why Aging is a BONUS, PLUS, and a MUST!?   ABOUT THE HOST My name is Margaret V Aberdeen, host of “TODAY I AM ALIVE!” A lot people know me for being a unique, enthusiastic, vibrant, invincible, infectious, passionate woman that brings "LIGHT" to people’s lives. I AM an Infinite Spiritual Being, and my present roles are a Domestic Abuse, Cancer and Near-Death Experience Thriving Survivor, Award Inspirational Speaker, Author of Priceless Roles of a Mother, Poet, Coach and Nature Lover, and I have experienced some dark life-threatening traumas in this world… Including child abuse and almost being killed by a former partner which instigated the tragic loss of my second son, plus kidney, and brain cancerous tumours, and years of constant seizures, suicidal thoughts, anxiety and depression, and have recently been diagnosed with a hole in my heart, not to mention the struggles of being a single mother whilst dealing with the above. Strange as it sounds, I see all these traumas as blessings for myself to share and inspire others. Traumas because they were tough and hard-hitting… there's no doubt about that… But blessings because Today I AM ALIVE, what I have experienced in life have become my greatest teacher, my pillar of strength for my personal and spiritual growth, and has shown me as you age you gain infinite wisdom and that life is short and precious with multiple choice, and that YOU are in control of how to respond to whatever life throws at YOU!  I’m Proof That You Can Survive Everything. From a breakdown to a breakthrough with a positive mindset, fiercely and fearlessly embracing all my traumas like the Phoenix, I have risen and am striving and thriving triumphantly with courage, choices, and commitment to change to live life within with passion and fiery vigor.    CONTACT DETAILS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/
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