Holistic Health and Thriving: A Journey to Wellness

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90% Of Doctor Visits Are EmotionalQigong Fixes It FAST | David Braasch | EP 8

Join Qigong Teacher & Retired University Professor David Braasch, Stephanie MoDavis, Scott Gordon, Leslie Powers & Cory Endrulat as we delve into the ancient art of Qigong that heals trauma, resets your nervous system, and outperforms Western medicine for 90% of emotional health issues.

David Braasch is a retired university professor, certified Qigong instructor, and Residential Caretaker and Head Gardener at the Florida Community of Mindfulness in Tampa, Florida, where he weaves Taoist and Buddhist principles into embodied, heart-centered practice. Drawing on decades of meditation, Tai Chi, and Qigong study, he teaches weekly public classes and offers private sessions through his business, Open Lotus Qigong, using mindful movement and breath to help people process trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and restore a sense of inner safety and vitality. In a world burdened by stress, disconnection, and generational wounds, David’s work reveals Qigong as both a spiritual and somatic path of healing—aligning body, mind, and spirit with the natural flow of life. Beyond the cushion and practice hall, his commitment to compassion in action continues through his involvement with WellBuilt Cities and his service at The Drop, a day shelter in one of Tampa’s roughest neighborhoods, where he helps lead efforts to provide dignifying, nutritious home‑cooked meals to those most in need.

If you're interested in health, critical thinking about mainstream medicine, and empowering yourself with knowledge, this video is for you!

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FUNL 5 The Cosmic Mother’s Guide To Freedom, Part 1

The Process of Internal Monarchy:

Activating the Gift of the Great Cosmic Mother

I will be weaving through a framework and process of healing our divided world through healing our divided selves. I will invite you to contemplate the Hermetic principles as we explore the anatomy of our mind, which naturally splits into part. I incorporate the Archetype of the Great Cosmic Mother, as an activating force which represents True Care (agape love) merged with Natural Law principles of morality (the true operating principles of the Universe).

This conversation is both spiritual and psychological, with a practical aim— to increase your inner monarchy, to reduce violence and suffering, and to encourage everyones conscious participation in collective healing through doing your own internal work. This is how freedom can be achieved, one conscious mind at a time.

About ME

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Leslie Powers MSW

Leslie Powers MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker with over 35 years of professional experience. As a trauma-informed therapist and educator, she embodies a lifelong passion for holistic wellness. By blending her professional expertise with lived experience and a deep understanding of natural law principles, Leslie offers a compassionate path to personal growth and freedom in a world often shaped by trauma and oppression. She helps individuals recover from trauma, manage chronic stress, build healthy relationships, and break free from limiting social patterns through an integrative, heart-centered approach rooted in psychotherapy. Additionally, Leslie serves as a clinical consultant for professionals.

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Lover of Nature, Truth and Freedom

Appreciating beauty, wisdom, and the potential of life on this awe-inspiring planet is essential for holistic wellness.

I am inspired to live in harmony with nature and to develop my creative potential as a compassionate and integral human. This journey aligns with the principles of natural law, recognizing that morality is encoded into the universe and can be discovered by everyone once we release our attachment to man-made laws and religious dogma.

Understanding that moral responsibility and the spirit of stewardship for our world are at the core of our human potential is crucial for personal growth. This awareness can be enhanced through psychotherapy and trauma-informed therapy, which support our journey toward self-discovery and healing.

Find my work and an assortment of amazing truth speakers on the One Great Work Network created by Mark Passio, a researcher and teacher who has profoundly impacted my life and inspired my work.

https://onegreatworknetwork.com/leslie-powers

Find Mark Passio's work at: https://whatonearthishappening.com/

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SERVICES

Offering free education and inspiration through podcasts focused on holistic wellness. Follow my Taplink at: https://taplink.cc/lesliepowers.

I provide paid services aimed at awakening individuals who seek healing from traumatic life events, striving to overcome despair, anxiety, and depression, while embracing personal growth through personal responsibility for their own happiness. Engaging in self-work is easier with support.

Additionally, I offer trauma-informed therapy and clinical consultation to coaches and clinicians, grounded in natural law principles.

About my projects

Alive and Thriving

Alive and Thriving is a reservoir of work that merges concepts of psychology with natural law principles, focusing on universal morality. In this space, I confront some of the stark and dark realities of our world, exploring how we can utilize trauma-informed therapy to transmute pain into lasting freedom and holistic wellness, ultimately fostering personal growth.

Dissolving the Divide

Dissolving the Divide is a dynamic series of interviews with incredible individuals who are passionate about truth, freedom, and holistic wellness. Join me and my collaborator/cohost Derek Bartolacelli for a truly unique compilation of interviews that cover a variety of topics, including personal growth and natural law principles. Our mission is to provide an alternative to the mainstream 'divide and conquer' narrative by integrating principles of psychotherapy and trauma-informed therapy to offer real solutions.

Health Revealed

Health Revealed is a collaborative and groundbreaking project with Cory Endrulat, Stephanie MoDavis, and Scott Gordon that delves into the psychology of statism and its negative impacts on our health and health care system. By exploring holistic wellness and natural law principles, we aim to foster personal growth through insights gained from psychotherapy and trauma-informed therapy. Stay tuned for our new HEALTH REVEALED PODCAST! Visit us at https://www.healthrevealed.org/.

Girls Club

This is a fun series of conversations among some cool women who care about holistic wellness, freedom, truth, and healing. Join me, Sara Cross, and Brittany Ashby along with appearances by other smart and loving individuals, as we explore themes of personal growth, natural law principles, psychotherapy, and trauma-informed therapy.

Reviving Sophia

Reviving Sophia is focused on people, especially women, who have faced challenging or chaotic relationships and are seeking support and personal growth in all aspects of their lives. I provide trauma-informed therapy that helps women return to their wholeness through a caring sisterhood and deepening self-awareness. This approach aligns with holistic wellness and incorporates natural law principles, complementing Alive and Thriving with an emphasis on relational health and women's perspectives. This work explores the Goddess in all Her forms.

THRIVING

What does it mean to Thrive?

We all seek to thrive...to live life at its fullest through holistic wellness.

Thriving means living up to our potential as co-creators in the universe, embracing natural law principles.

Thriving means finding happiness that comes from living in harmony with nature.

I don't mean happiness as an ephemeral, transitory mood state, but happiness in the context of life satisfaction, well-being, emotional, intellectual, and physical health, moral alignment, integral living, community connection, and flourishing.

Thriving is our birthright.

To reach our human potential, we require freedom. This freedom results from living a life based on universal principles and morality.

We can learn to be free... From where we are now as a society, the road to freedom will take concerted effort and some level of sacrifice... and it's worth it!

Freedom offers us the opportunity to fully express our unique selves and live without debilitating states of depression, anxiety, gluttony, and addiction. Working for freedom now, through personal growth and psychotherapy, is an act of courage that will help increase the odds that future generations will thrive too! This work is our divine purpose!

Our potential is severely limited though by the conditions of chronic stress and unnatural trauma caused by coercion, oppression, and violence. These conditions literally change our minds.

Unless we take charge of our thoughts and behaviors and how we interact with each other, our brain state will decline and our health will deteriorate.

The potential exists for peace and harmony among people, yet we are leagues away from this in our current reality. Instead of thriving, we are suffering and declining.

Sadly, we are complicit in this decline and in the withering of our spirits and declining health. We are demonstrating the lack of knowledge and skills necessary to thrive.

The bottom line is that we are not victims of circumstance. We are indeed collaborators... Collaborators in bad relationships and participants in immoral social structures.

I call in a world where we achieve authentic freedom through facing our inner conflicts, reconciling our traumas, releasing cognitive dissonance, and aligning our actions with truth.

We will then recognize our interconnectedness to nature and all living beings and act accordingly with a spirit of true care.

And then we will THRIVE!

Learn More

Learn and practice the art of being Alive and Thriving! If you wish to thrive and free yourself from chronic states of unhappiness and compromised wellbeing, and if you seek to live up to your full potential,

CONTACT ME at: vibrantlightcounseling@gmail.com