Identity and Purpose From Trauma and Grief

If you enjoy stories, you aren’t going to want to miss this one. You’re going to hear a woman’s story of how she found her identity and purpose through a crisis of faith fueled by trauma and grief. Andrea Brunswick is a Creative Life Strategist with a mission of helping women over 50 find their identity and purpose.

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Transcription - Andrea Finds Her Identity and Purpose

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If you enjoy stories, you aren't going to want to miss this one.

In just a moment, you're going to hear a woman's story of how she found her identity in purpose and life.

So don't go anywhere.

Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire

fathers everywhere, to take great pride in their role,

and a challenge society to understand how important fathers are to the stability

and culture of their family's environment.

Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.

Greetings everyone. Thank you so much for joining me.

Andrea Brunswick joins me now and is ready to share her journey of finding her identity in purpose.

Andrea, thank you so much for being on the Fatherhood Challenge.

We can miss Jonathan. Thank you.

Well, Andrea, I know there is a lot to your story of finding your identity in purpose, so

we won't waste a minute.

Yeah, there is a lot to unpack with my story.

A full story, really, of trauma.

The trauma from loss, grief, death,

and all of the madness and the insanity that it brings.

But I think I have a lot of trauma also because Jonathan,

for my majority of my life,

and I'm just turned 62, so a lot of life, a lot of living,

I was of the world.

I was of culture and of the world,

and the lanes that I played in were new thought, new age, law of attraction.

Not even understanding really that there was anything wrong with that.

Because when you don't know what you don't know, you just don't know, right?

Like God has always spoken to me since I'm a little girl.

I've been able to hear Him very clearly.

My roots are Judaism, and I've always felt a presence

very close to me. It's sometimes on my body, I could feel something.

Now knowing what I know, I believe that that was the Holy Spirit that was on me, right?

So I always felt that, and I always heard from God.

And for Jewish people, we would never think that we can't hear from our Father as Hashem,

right? Because it was always just us and him.

So in any case, at the beginning of 2021, I heard, I was coming out of my meditation,

which was my morning routine, and I heard him say to me, "Andrea, this is your year to unlearn."

And I was like, "Okay, unlearn." I don't really know what you're talking about, but whatever.

I'm like, "Yeah, take me where you want to take me." Well, he did.

It's so funny because I didn't even know I didn't see it coming.

So it was, you know, when the world went mad from 2020, as I, and I don't mean any offense to anybody,

because I do know people have lost loved ones. I don't mean any disrespect, but

and I'm Canadian. So Canada went mad and we weren't locked down the longest. So I was hearing

this buzz about this social app. I don't know if you know it, Clubhouse. So I gone on there because I

thought, "Geez, that's going to be really good for my business, which my business is. I'm a

creative life strategist for women." You know, meaning, "It's my