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Published Oct 16, 2023

#317: Overcome Trauma & Reclaim Your Power with Drew Canole

Drew Canole, CEO of FitLife.TV and founder of Organifi, joins Mark Groves to discuss overcoming trauma, redefining masculinity, and the path to personal transformation through gut health, emotional work, and entrepreneurism.
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  • Early Abuse

    shares his harrowing early-life experiences with abuse, detailing the severe trauma he endured from ages zero to five. He recounts the physical and emotional torture inflicted by his father, including being fed through a doggy door and having cigarettes put out on his forehead 1. Despite these hardships, Drew's resilience began to manifest through lucid dreams, which provided him with a sense of control and hope 1. He describes a profound dream where he shrank a monstrous figure, symbolizing his father, which led to a significant change in his father's behavior 2.

    I realized that I had the power to wake up in the dream. For whatever reason, I'm like, this is a dream. So I focused on the monster, and I shrunk it.

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    These experiences laid the foundation for his journey of healing and transformation.

       

    Transforming Memories

    Drew discusses the concept of transforming painful memories into empowering ones. He explains how he reorients his traumatic past by altering his perception of those memories, turning them into sources of strength rather than victimhood 3. By visualizing his past in different ways, such as changing vivid colors to black and white or adding circus music, he reshapes his emotional response to those events 3. This mental reconfiguration allows him to use his trauma as fuel for personal growth and creativity.

    If you can go back and reorient yourself to the memory that you had, be it the abuse that I had, right? I've done this a lot where it's like, I'll go back, look at it with vivid color, change it to black and white.

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    This approach underscores the power of the mind in healing and transforming one's life.

       

    Mental Healing

    Drew emphasizes the importance of mental and emotional healing through inner knowing and releasing beliefs. He describes how heavy beliefs can weigh us down, preventing us from achieving a state of inner freedom 4. By shedding these beliefs, individuals can navigate life guided by their inner truth and intuition. Drew also highlights the significance of sending love to the things we hate, as a means of healing separation and fostering unity 5.

    If you have a lot of beliefs, they make you heavy. And if you're heavy, you can't fly. To have knowing is to be able to fly.

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    This philosophy encourages a holistic approach to overcoming trauma and achieving emotional well-being.

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