Jana Wilson: Wise Little One
“What I have come to know in my personal life and the lives of all the people I've worked with is that every trauma, challenge, and wound comes bearing a gift and some wisdom our soul needs. Once I opened up to finding the wisdom (and lesson) of my very traumatic childhood that made me the strong, loving, compassionate and capable woman, wife, and mother that I am today, I began to live the life of my dreams.”
- Jana Wilson
The real gift that comes from having your own podcast is sitting down to talk with someone who you don’t really know; who seems to have lived the same life as you, cut from the same cloth, experienced the same squalid violent conditions, and has come out the other side, and is well and whole and wants to talk about it. It’s special. Every. Damn. Time.
And every time it’s like looking in a mirror, or meeting a new best friend, discovering the “Krishnaness of Krishna,” seeing the self in the other.
We sat down and read Jana’s beautiful book: Wise Little One: Learning to Love and Listen to My Inner Child.
She has a fabulous story to tell—one that’s filled page to page with some horrific and also sublime stuff.
It’s something you’ll be able to relate to. It’s the stuff we’ve all felt in different ways — because we’re all human.
O.K. maybe Elvis never invited us up to his suite, and maybe our fathers weren’t themselves Elvis impersonators… But, perhaps you have your own great aunt who was murdered by her husband, or several incarcerated relatives— experienced a litany of abuse, physical or chemical… It certainly felt like we knew Jana.
She is our people.
It was a pleasure to get to know her better and share her journey of transformation, one of moving from darkness to light with you here in this episode. There is a LOT of important information in this interview, including her very personal experiences with Deepak Chopra and Debbie Ford, and the lessons learned from working closely with these very different spiritual teachers and personal development gurus.
That said, (and Malcolm X said the same in his autobiography), “it’s easy to get deliciously trapped in the vile details, and miss the spiritual ascendancy that arose out of that life.”
Jana’s miracle is that she has become like the lotus, flowering out of the fetid swamp. It’s unusual.
Like David Williams said “I was used to folks getting old and sick. Not older and wiser. I wanted to see how that was done.”
Jana exemplifies just that. She’s getting older and wiser and has a story to tell. Her openness and willingness to come face to face with her own demons and shadows is something we can all learn from.
Give this podcast a listen, folks.
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Opening and closing music compliments of my dear friend teaching Ashtanga yoga in Eindhoven, Nick Evans, with his band “dawnSong” from the album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.
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