#246 You Don't Have to Carry It Anymore: Tia Crystal on Healing the Inner Child, Mental Health, and Feeling Safe Again | Guest: Tia Crystal, Author & Founder of Be Wellness Mind

**Episode Summary** Some people you meet feel less like new acquaintances and more like a reunion. That's how Bart Berkey describes meeting Tia Crystal — an internationally recognized artist, author, wellness advocate, clinical hypnotherapist, and founder of Be Wellness Mind — whose work has been shown at the United Nations in Geneva. In this warm, wide-ranging conversation, Tia opens up about growing up with severe dyslexia and the self-worth struggles it fed, a message she received at age ten that she wouldn't understand her purpose until forty, and how she became "the living embodiment" of what she now teaches. **Key Takeaways** - **You are the success today.** Whatever happened before, you go back to old patterns as the empowered adult you already are — not as the wounded child. - **Safety is the foundation of everything.** "If you feel safe inside you, you can do anything." Real change starts by helping your younger self feel safe. - **Strong is muscle; power is knowing.** Strength is effort; power is the quiet certainty of who you already are. - **Become the observer.** ~60,000 thoughts a day, ~90% repetitive, ~80% negative. See a negative thought as a "gremlin" outside you — name the feeling, and it loosens its grip. - **Stop rereading chapter one.** Most people replay the same story to the end, then start it over. It's time to give yourself permission to write a new one. - **Make peace with worry.** You may never delete it — but you can breathe, put your arms around yourself, and lessen its grip instead of numbing it away. **Quotable Moments (pull-quotes for the newsletter / social)** "Strong is muscle. Power is knowing." "You are the success today, regardless of what happened to you before." "It's time to write a new story. What do you give yourself permission to write?" "The more you run from something, the more it runs after you." "You are the microcosm of the macrocosm. The only way to change the world is to change your little corner of it." **Quotable Moments (pull-quotes for the newsletter / social)** "Strong is muscle. Power is knowing." "You are the success today, regardless of what happened to you before." "It's time to write a new story. What do you give yourself permission to write?" "The more you run from something, the more it runs after you." "You are the microcosm of the macrocosm. The only way to change the world is to change your little corner of it." **Episode Details:** - **Show:** Most People Don't… But You Do! - **Season 4, Episode 246** - **Host:** Bart Berkey - **Guest:** Tia Crystal, Artist, Author, Wellness Advocate, Clinical Hypnotherapist & Founder of Be Wellness Mind - **Book:** *The Paintbrush* (Amazon & Audible) - **Also:** Creator of the animated children's mindfulness series *E Me Uni* - **Connect:** tiacrystal.com · bewellnessmind.com · bewellnesstravel.com