Using Mindfulness to Heal Trauma and Create Lasting Change with Katie Brauer

I Heart My Life Show

In this episode of The I Heart My Life Show, Emily Williams sits down with Katie Brauer, a meditation and mindfulness expert, trauma specialist, and transformational coach. Katie has spent over two decades helping individuals reconnect with their bodies and heal from the inside out using mindfulness and trauma recovery techniques. She opens up about her personal journey, transitioning from a professional snowboarder to becoming a leader in the wellness space, and shares the powerful tools she uses to help others find peace and fulfillment.

Katie discusses her struggles with burnout, physical injury, and how mindfulness practices, trauma healing, and slowing down helped her regain her health and purpose. Her mission is to help others calm their minds, heal from trauma, and live more intentionally.

Key Takeaways:

• The Impact of Independence: Katie reflects on how her upbringing fostered strong independence but also created patterns that kept her disconnected from her deeper emotional needs. She shares how recognizing this allowed her to start healing these behaviors.

• Healing from Trauma: Katie shares her personal healing journey after a major snowboarding injury, discussing how traditional recovery methods weren’t enough. She turned to mindfulness, somatic healing, and trauma recovery techniques, which transformed her approach to healing.

• Mindfulness for Overcoming Overwhelm: Katie talks about how mindfulness and somatic practices help high achievers and anyone experiencing overwhelm to slow down, tune into their bodies, and find balance.

• Finding Fulfillment by Slowing Down: Katie emphasizes the importance of slowing down and intentionally focusing on just one thing at a time. She shares how this practice helped her find deeper joy and a more balanced way of living.

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Host, Emily Williams is a success coach, author, speaker, and CEO of multiple brands.

After falling into a quarter-life crisis and struggling through a string of low-paying jobs (including serving up lattes at Starbucks), she finally decided it was time to follow her heart. So she packed her bags, moved to London (where she knew no one), and launched her own coaching business, I Heart My Life (without knowing if she’d ever make a dime). And that’s when her whole life changed course.

In her first month in business, Emily earned $442. She then went on to hit 6 figures before her 30th birthday, and—after just 18 months—successfully scaled what she'd started to a multi-million dollar empire.

Today, she remains the CEO of I Heart My Life, which has evolved into a media, educational and lifestyle brand through which she carries out her mission of helping thousands of women worldwide to create a life better than their dreams.

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The guest on this podcast is Katie Brauer, called a powerhouse yogi and rising leader by Forbes, is a top wellness educator and expert who combines two decades of experience in somatics, trauma healing, yoga, and mindfulness to create and facilitate transformative experiences. A former professional snowboarder, Katie’s been featured in TEDx, Wanderlust, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Origin, Mantra, Gaiam TV, and more. Through a progressive, results-driven, passion-fueled approach, she has taught tens of thousands of people to foster a greater sense of connection and growth over the past 20 years.
Learn more about Katie on her website: katiebrauer.com

And Connect with her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/katiebrauer/