What if addiction isn’t something to fix… but a portal to awakening?

This week on Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly Buckley sits down with Greg Vorst and Michael Nolan — co-founders of Embodied Recovery, a pioneering treatment centre in Silicon Valley helping people transform addiction and mental health struggles into soul growth and empowered living.

Greg and Michael are doing recovery differently.

Their Empowered Living Teachings weave together psychology, ancient wisdom, and embodied practices. Drawing from therapy, 12-Step recovery, and Sundo — Korean Taoist breathwork, they guide clients back to their inner wisdom, creating spaces where spiritual transformation and nervous system regulation go hand in hand.

Their personal stories are raw, honest, and deeply human. Both men walked their own recovery paths — spanning spiritual communities, 12-Step rooms, and years of personal work — before creating a treatment model rooted in integrity, embodiment, and community.

In this powerful conversation, they open up about:

• 🌿 Reframing addiction from a “problem to fix” to a spiritual doorway to awakening

• 💨 How bottom-up healing and daily breathwork unlock transformation where talk therapy alone can’t

• 🧱 Working with denial and resistance through love, trust, and gentle truth-telling

• 🎶 Rediscovering the “Melody of Love” — and how to return to it when life pulls you away

• 🤝 Why every team member at Embodied Recovery works their own recovery program — and why it matters for clients

• 🌀 How their new nonprofit Melos will offer graduates a community of spiritual practice, sober dance, and breathwork long after treatment ends

This is an episode about coming home to yourself, breaking through the noise, and remembering that the gold has always been inside you. ✨

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📌 Links & Resources

• 🌐 Kelly’s Website: https://www.kellybuckley.com

• 📚 Kelly’s Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com (search “Kelly Buckley”)

• 🧠 Embodied Recovery: https://www.embodiedrecovery.org

• 🎶 Melos Nonprofit: https://www.melosrecovery.org (opening planned for 2026)

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🎧 If Greg and Michael’s story resonates with you, share this episode with someone who’s ready to stop fixing… and start awakening.

What happens when the woman who seems to “have it all” admits she’s still terrified to be seen?

This week on Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Angie Hawkins — The Inner Glow Coach and author who helps high-achieving, spiritual women stop chasing love and approval… and start radiating fierce confidence from within.

Angie’s story is both breathtaking and brutally honest.

She’s bungee-jumped in New Zealand, skydived, run 16 marathons, and even leapt out of a helicopter Navy SEAL-style. She packed up her life in Chicago and moved to Hawaii alone — all in the pursuit of purpose and joy.

But behind the fearless exterior was a deep fear of truly being seen.

In this powerful conversation, Angie opens up about:

• 🌿 Her journey from emotional rock bottom to rediscovering her inner light

• 🪂 How bungee jumping became a metaphor for courage and transformation

• 📱 The “Instagram vs Reality” exercise that cracks open vulnerability in her workshops

• 🌞 What it means to shine from the inside and how it ripples into every area of life

• 💬 Why facing our deepest fears is the key to real freedom

This is an episode about masks, courage, and the quiet revolution that happens when women stop seeking external validation and start trusting themselves.

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📌 Links & Resources

• 🌐 Angie’s Website & Coaching: https://runningandslippers.com

• 📚 Running in Slippers — Angie’s Memoir: Available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook on Amazon (search “Running in Slippers Angie Hawkins”)

• 🗓️ Book a Free Coaching Call with Angie: https://runningandslippers.com → Free Call section

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🎧 If Angie’s story resonates with you, share it with someone who needs to be reminded: the glow is already inside you.

Hey Friends, welcome back to Broken Beautiful Me 💜

This week’s conversation is raw, brave, and soul-shifting.

I sit down with Katie Baker—writer, advocate, and childhood abuse survivor—who has transformed her pain into profound purpose.

👉 From years of battling addiction, shame, and silence…

👉 To sitting in sacred ayahuasca ceremonies around the world…

👉 To writing her memoir When the Universe Holds Your Hair Back…

Katie shares how she reclaimed her voice, her body, and her spirit.

Her story is not just about surviving trauma—it’s about reclaiming agency, finding community, and daring to live fully.

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🔖 Episode Chapters

00:00 – Katie’s son says “Mom, it’s your turn to heal”

02:00 – Facing childhood trauma & breaking silence

09:00 – First experiences with psychedelics & ayahuasca

16:00 – Inside a sacred ceremony: intention, process & release

25:00 – Turning pain into advocacy and writing her memoir

32:00 – Healing family relationships across generations

46:00 – What society misunderstands about survivors

54:00 – Learning self-care and finding balance

01:01:00 – Katie’s legacy of hope for future survivors

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In this episode, we talk about:

• 🌱 The turning point when her son said: “Mom, it’s your turn to heal.”

• 🍃 How therapeutic psychedelics opened a path to transformation.

• 💔 What society still misunderstands about abuse and survivors.

• 💡 Why telling our stories breaks cycles of shame and secrecy.

• 🌍 How Katie is now helping others heal through writing, advocacy, and spiritual practice.

Katie’s honesty reminds us: every scar tells a story—and every story has the power to heal.

📖 Connect with Katie Baker

Website: peaceandfirehealing.com

Book: When the Universe Holds Your Hair Back (available on Amazon, Audible, Spotify)

💜 If this episode moved you, please subscribe, review, and share with someone who needs to hear that healing is possible. Together, we shine brighter.