Deep Listening with Wendy Williams

When was the last time you felt deeply heard? Nurse and Three Principles practitioner Wendy Williams shares the impact deep listening has on both the listener and those being listened to. We also discuss the priceless benefits that understanding every human’s innate resilience can have for nurses and other healers.As a nurse educator and clinician for over 25 years, Wendy Williams helps people facing extraordinary (and ordinary) challenges to move forward with grace and ease. She is an experienced mental well-being educator. As Wendy sees it (and teaches it), we are meant to thrive in this world, but sometimes we get stuck. Whether it’s being swept up in the whirlwind of everyday life or struggling to overcome a major life hurdle, getting back on track, and moving forward can, and will, happen quite naturally. Wendy’s deep experience mixed with her practical and kind-hearted teaching & education point the way forward.You can find Wendy Williams at ForwardWithWendy.com and on Facebook at Find Your Way Forward.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below.Show Notes* Paying attention to work we’re naturally drawn to * Recognizing an awareness of our innate well-being * How in any circumstance in life we can react in any number of ways depending on our thinking * On the universal intelligence that flows through everything, including us * The benefits for healers like nurses of knowing about our innate resilience * The difference between deep listening and active listeningResources Mentioned in this Episode* Wendy’s Deep Listening class with Lori Carpenos, April 5 to 7, 2024 * Sydney Banks’ book The Missing Link * Beyond Recovery * Jacqueline Hollows’ book Wings of an AngelTranscript of Interview with Wendy WilliamsAlexandra: Wendy Williams, welcome to Unbroken. Wendy: Thank you very much for having me. I’m excited to be here with you. Alexandra: Oh, I’m excited, you’re here as well. So let’s begin with a little bit of your background.Tell us about yourself and how you got interested in the Three Principles.Wendy: Sure thing. Well, I live in the northeastern part of the United States near Boston, Massachusetts, I have been a nurse for more years. I got married at the ancient age of 38 to a guy that I just adore, even as we speak, I adore him. I have been a nurse, like I say, for a very long time, specializing for years in conditions like HIV AIDS, cancer, hospice, so I’m a real pro at the bedside when people are saying goodbye. And, a lot of what I do happens to do with ongoing or chronic pain. I’m still practicing as a nurse in that regard. But I’m also having a real focus on bringing the Three Principles to a wider community in health care, because a lot of my sisters and brothers in health care are kind of tired and burning out a little bit, especially after the pandemic. So I’m excited to extend the ripples, as I say, for the awakening, that certainly the Three Principles is brought to my life and many people that I know. Alexandra: Wow. You’re not just dealing with giving people flu shots, and mending broken fingers. Those are some pretty deep human experiences that people are having when you encounter them.Wendy: Absolutely. It was an interesting thing,