How do you move through loss? In this episode of Your SuperPowered Mind, host Kristin Maxwell is joined by guest Scott Sunderland as they talk about the process of  Moving Through Loss. Scott Sunderland found himself lying in a hospital bed, unable to move any part of his body. In just three days, he had gone from a very capable, athletic man to being completely paralyzed with a mind full of fear. However, Scott believed he was greater than just his body, and he used that power throughout the next year to teach himself how to walk out of that room and into a new life.  Failure and loss can show you the door to your own greatness! Come listen to this episode and learn that you are not the voice in your head and that you can tap into the universal energy of creation and transformation.

Kristin Maxwell:

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I’m Kristin Maxwell. And on the show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life.

Today, I am really excited about my guest. I’m going to be talking to Scott Sunderland, and we’re going to be diving deep into the process of moving through loss. What are the mind shifts and thoughts and beliefs and processes that are going to help you after tragedy? And Scott Sunderland was a successful family man and business owner when he found himself paralyzed and in the hospital. Using visualization and tuning into the understanding that he was more than just his body, he was able to move through and regain full use of his body, only to then suffer another tragic loss of one of his best friends. In learning how to move through these losses and tragedies, Scott was able to both find himself in a connection to others, and now helps others to move past the limitations that stand in their way from living a life of passion and purpose. Scott, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.

Scott Sunderland:

Well, I think mastering the mind is definitely always an ongoing process because we are just living this human experience. And I think that can be one of the superpowers, is just understanding that you are not the voice in your head, you are not the voice of the mind. We’re more than that, we’re bigger than that. And I think that for me, has been both a blessing and a curse because you know you’re creating it all. When you start to go down the road that I have, it wasn’t a choice, I guess I was forced into it, so to speak, I learned that I am not my mind. So who am I? So then the journey starts, well now I need to find out who I am. And it’s been a great ride. I’ve discovered a lot about myself and a lot about a lot of others that I’ve worked with along the way. And it’s really a fascinating dive into who we really are.

Kristin Maxwell:

Yes. And before you had your first, became paralyzed, had you been thinking about these kinds of questions, or was this something that just came up when you found yourself unable to do and be everything you’d been up to that point?

Scott Sunderland:

No, I had always known something, always knew there was something. My mom was extremely spiritual in a universal way, not a God way or religious way. And she had crazy ideas and everybody looked at her as crazy, and I definitely understood that. And I knew that very early on, very young, I knew I could make things happen, so to speak. Think a certain way, things showed up. And I guess it was trying to fit, which I think a lot of people, we find ourselves, some of us really find ourselves struggling to fit. To fit into society, to fit into this human existence in a broader term. And really, am I this person? And I really did everything I could to fit. I was the brother, the father, the husband, the son, I was all those things. I was the achiever, I was the business owner, I was the carpenter. I was all these things, but yet there was still more.

And I guess it really wasn’t popular, this road, I guess of this spirituality of going so, so deep. And it was kind of like, I kept being hit over the head, like, you’re doing it wrong, you’re doing it wrong, you’re doing it wrong. You’re basically working us to death, meaning my mind and my body were kinds of just a runaway train. And finally, I think something said, okay, he’s not getting the message, let’s shut him down. And within two or three days, I went from an extremely healthy human being to a body that just refused any sort of input of like, move your finger, move your eyelid, nothing really came.

So it really made me sit in that, and to really try to find out, okay, who was I three days ago, and what did I possess that I could move and do all these things, walk, run, eat, feed myself, talk. And then suddenly now, I don’t possess that anymore. What is that? And watching people coming in and out of my hospital room, they could do all that, but yet I’m disconnected from it. What is that? And that’s really where it started for me. And yeah, the journey began right there.

Kristin Maxwell:

That’s a lot. And I’m really curious to learn more about how you moved through that process. What were some of the realizations you had, some of the beliefs that you shifted? This stuff is fascinating. And I know that you now help people with this process yourself, and maybe you could tell people before we go to break, where you do that. Where can they find you if they want to work with you?

Scott Sunderland:

Sure. I have two other partners that each teaches with me. We have courses and we work with people, the three of us. And it’s really impactful because we all kind of blend together. So our website is thefreedomproject222.com. And on Facebook, we have a private Facebook group and that is The Freedom Project. And you can email me at [email protected].

Kristin Maxwell:

That’s great. And you also have a book, Finding Ugly, as I look, yes.

Scott Sunderland:

I do have a book and you can find that on Amazon. And that really tells, really the whole story of everything I went through and how I came back to, I guess, realizing who I really was and going through that process and, yeah.

Kristin Maxwell:

Great. Good. Well, thanks. Let’s hang on everybody. When we come back, I’m going to be diving deep about the process Scott went through in moving through loss. Hang on and we’ll be right back.

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