In this episode of The Phoenix Mind with Lisa Manzo, Mandy Alexis shares her powerful journey of addiction, recovery, and deep nervous system healing. After starting drugs and alcohol at just 12 years old, Mandy spent 16 years addicted to cocaine. Even during those years, she carried a quiet fascination with the human mind and the deeper reasons behind behavior, pain, and emotional survival.

Recovery became the turning point that changed everything. While living in three countries across Central America, Mandy faced a complete nervous system breakdown and deep depression that forced her to slow down and look inward. Through that process, she began learning about the vagus nerve, energy clearing, and what it truly means to rebuild from the inside out. Today, Mandy shares her story to remind others that no matter how lost or broken you feel, healing, happiness, and freedom are always possible when we meet ourselves with compassion and commit to the journey.

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In this episode of The Phoenix Mind with Lisa Manzo, Dawn Jackson, RN, Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, and bestselling author, shares how healing unresolved grief can transform every area of life. With more than 30 years of nursing experience, Dawn brings deep compassion and lived understanding to the process of moving from survival into wholeness. Her work has been featured in Aspire Magazine, international bestselling anthologies, and on podcasts around the world.

Growing up in a family impacted by alcoholism, Dawn learned early how pain can quietly shape identity, relationships, and self worth. After finding herself divorced at 30, she realized that much of her past grief had never been healed. That awakening led her to The Grief Recovery Method and a profound personal transformation. Today, as the author of Journey to Peace and Healing and Journey to Self Discovery: 100 Days of Soulful Reflections, Dawn guides others to release old pain, heal the heart, and rediscover joy in mind, body, and spirit.

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In this episode of The Phoenix Mind with Lisa Manzo, dual service U.S. Navy and Air Force veteran Marilyn Richards shares her powerful journey from survival to significance. As one of the first women to serve aboard the USS Carl Vinson and later an Air Force service member after 9/11, Marilyn carried deep responsibility, discipline, and unspoken trauma beneath the uniform. Childhood wounds and military experiences were buried under service until burnout, depression, and spiritual silence forced her to pause and listen inward.

Through therapy, faith, community, and writing, Marilyn reclaimed her identity and healing. That rebirth led to the founding of Echo Tango Sierra LLC, a trauma informed, faith based transition and empowerment platform supporting veterans and trauma survivors as they rebuild resilient, purpose driven lives. This conversation explores faith, recovery, identity after service, and the courage required to stop surviving and begin forging ahead with intention and hope.

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