Sylvia was attacked by a serial killer eight months after her son was murdered. She's also endured sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, neglect and a divorce. Sylvia understands grief, loss, and trauma down to her core. She has learned that although you can't erase the bad things that happen to you, you can become better and stronger because of them. You can mend beautifully.

Sylvia Moore Myers is a certified mental health coach, personal life coach, suicide prevention specialist, first responder in crisis and trauma, speaker, author, thought leader and the founder and CEO of Gold Scars, LLC. You can reach Sylvia at her website https://www.sylviamooremyers.com

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Some of the highlights Sylvia shares:

• How healing is like the Japanese art form "kintsugi"
• People don't really heal, we scar, and that's enough
• "My whole life I was looking for an eraser to remove the things that hurt me when I should have been looking for a highlighter"
• Learning how to "scar beautifully"
• S.C.A.R. - Strength, Courage, Adapt, Resilience
• Steps to heal from abuse, loss, trauma, and more
• The harrowing story of her son's murder
• The unbelievable story of being attacked by a serial killer in her own driveway
• Fighting for her life and the lives of her children
• How current methods of shielding children from grief actually makes it worse
• How grief can compile throughout our lives if we don't address them
• How parents can model grief for their children
• How healing from unresolved grief helps heal our current grief
• How to feel worthy again after sexual abuse and trauma
• You can be happy again
• How smiling (even if we don't feel like it) can jump start happiness
• Making a decision to heal
• Finding humor and learning how to laugh again after loss
• I deserve to be healthy and happy again
• I didn't need a way to forget the loss of my son, I needed a better way to remember him
• And more

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