What if your pain is worth millions?

Most of us spend our lives running from our pain, burying our trauma, pretending it never happened. We think healing means forgetting. We think success means leaving the past behind. But what if that's the biggest mistake we could make? What if your deepest wound is actually your greatest wealth waiting to be unlocked?

April Wyett discovered this truth the hard way.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, April's home wasn't safe. Her mother, disabled by rheumatoid arthritis since age 19, was shut down on prescription medication, barely able to get out of bed. Her father, a school teacher and rare coin dealer, escaped the emotional pressure through gambling, leaving April to learn that love had to be earned through hustling and proving her worth.

So April ran to the woods. Nature became her first sanctuary the trees, the animals, the open sky that held her when nothing else could. But it wasn't until a horrific car accident at age 9, where she was crushed under their family car, that April truly understood what it meant to survive when the adults around you collapse.

That little girl who found refuge in nature grew up to create healing sanctuaries for others. Through energy work combining Reiki, sound healing, and biodynamic breathwork, April helps people release trauma stored in their bodies and discover that forgiveness starting with forgiving yourself is the key to unlocking everything you're meant to build.

Her childhood trauma didn't break her. It became the foundation of her empire an empire built on helping others transform their deepest wounds into their greatest gifts.

This isn't just about healing. It's about what becomes possible when you stop running from your pain and start building with it."

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome Back to April Wyatt's Story
• 1:26 Finding Healing Through Breathwork
• 5:01 Childhood Trauma and Role Reversal
• 8:16 Body Memory and Emotional Release
• 12:20 Mind-Body Connection and Finding Peace
• 15:32 Connect with April and Closing Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to part two of our episode with April Wyatt and yes, I spelt her name right, I said it right, go me. This is an incredible journey that she's been through, from her mother having rheumatoid arthritis, from being aware of her gifts at a very early age, but now she's embodying them in a different way. She helps people rediscover herself, understand their core meaning in life, and not just heal but play witness to it in order for them to come back into a central place of love and compassion, not just for themselves, but for other people. April, it's a privilege to have you here and hear about your journey and how you show up for other people. What inspired you to go deeper within the spiritualistic work and the holistic avenues?

Speaker 2: 1:10

There's always a calling Baz isn't there and like a gentle nudge or maybe something that just comes into our awareness that we're not so sure about. But it's oh, what's that over there type of thing that we're not so sure about, but it's oh, what's that over there? Type of thing. And it happened when I was working with people in the correctional institutions. I was working with both men and women and I would go in and teach about the they wanted me to teach about. Oh, what was it? Basically, you can edit this part out.

Speaker 2: 1:45

I was going in there teaching wellness, saying that you can find a cohesiveness within your body. They're returning citizens, they're going to be getting out in the world, and yet they had been locked away for 18 months or years. Just depends and finding a resource, finding some way to find that inner center, so that way, when they are going to their probation officer, they have to check in there, they have to get work, they have to find all this stuff in a matter of just maybe a couple months. That doesn't give that person much time, and yet they're already in that heightened state. How can I bring them into a space that it feels a little easier? Right that they can manage things. And it started with a quick box breathing. So that's breathing in for four, holding for four, breathing out for four, holding for four, and just the looks on their faces when they came out of that, it was just like what just happened. And this is while they were still in prison. And only one person said this makes me feel very uncomfortable. And I said why? And he said because usually when I'm in this peaceful space, something bad happens. That's the conditioning, that's the alert system saying oh, you can't feel good because something's going to happen to you. So, with that breath work, with understanding that and the nervous system, I decided to research and I love to find things that are also holistic minded but science backed, because me myself, I need to know the science and I need I and I can feel it. It's yes, this feels good, although how am I going to explain it to people that way? People don't. They understand more. They understand, as you say, Baz, when they go through the process. So that's how I found biodynamic breath work and trauma release system. And it is not a weekend. Let's get together online and you're certified. This is in person. This is before the global shift of I was 2019. I went to Colorado. I just told my husband I need to do this breath work training, I need to go for this retreat here, and he said breath work, you know, you can, you're breathing right now. And that's what a lot of the people say, right, the kind of gaslight it? Because they're not comfortable going in themselves and witnessing that parts of them. So that was a phenomenal experience and I went there for myself first and foremost, and then I received so much more in that and that's actually what brings it forward to healing my own trauma.

Speaker 2: 5:01

So when I was nine years old, I was in a horrific car accident with my mother. She, having that rheumatoid arthritis, was under prescription medication and she drove with both feet because of her hips and her knees and so one foot was on the gas, one foot was on the brake. We had a new, wonderful, bright orange Volvo station wagon with power steering and she wasn't used to power steering and she dozed off because of the prescription medication, hit the gravel, woke her up, startled her, so she just jerked the wheel and she rolled the car and I flew out the back window of the station wagon and the car, amazingly, landed right side up, although I was under the car, amazingly landed right side up. Although I was under the car, my left leg was under the passenger back rear tire and no one knew that I was outside of the car. Everybody came up to the driver's side having her to turn off the engine, and so she took her foot off the brake drove over my leg.

Speaker 2: 6:21

I was waking up very foggy, very. What's happening? I just see this tire go over my leg and I'm coming out of it, mommy. And then she goes through the gears, then reverse back over the leg, and that's when I started screaming and a woman came around the other side and she just lost it. She was like there's a little girl out here, she's under the car and my mother. Literally, roles were reversed in that moment. She had a mental breakdown. She just kept saying I could have killed you. All the things in the ambulance. I'm actually writing about it in a book right now. And that's when I knew that I couldn't count on her any longer, that I had to step into more of a mother role.

Speaker 2: 7:14

Wow to more of a mother role. And so I cooked, I cleaned, I did all the things like a housewife would, and yeah, so that was the trauma that I experienced. And yet I just put that in the past, that, yeah, that happened to me. But I'm here now and look at everything I've accomplished. I've done this, I've done that, all the things. This is what we tell ourselves, especially women no time for us. We got to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and keep going. There's no time to feel, have emotions about it.

Speaker 2: 7:52

And then I had my third in-person training in New Mexico at a Qigong like center where it was built on a vortex, and as soon as I got on that property, my skin was tingly and I didn't know what astro traveling was, but man, I didn't sleep any night there. Traveling was, but man, I didn't sleep any night. I was gone, and I remember thinking like during these interesting dream phases going places, I thought to myself I'm going to be so tired after all this, and then I would wake up and I was so refreshed and went into the breath work again. And so that day we were working on the heart space, we were working on the thoracic belt of tension. That's what we call the belt of tension through biodynamic breath work, and my support person found something in my lower back and followed it all the way up to behind my heart. That's what I had done. I'd layered and pushed everything back and she touched into that space. It reminds me of Kung Fu Panda with the skadoosh, if anybody's watched that. She touched that acupressure point there and I literally my body contorted and in a flash I saw my nine-year-old self flying out the back window. My mind didn't remember how I got out of the car, but my body sure did. And that's the beauty of the BBTRS the biodynamic breathwork and trauma release, because it's been proven that emotions and traumas are held within the fascia of the body, the membrane between the muscles, and so I had a huge release that I didn't realize that I was.

Speaker 2: 9:56

I had grief about that role reversal. I had so much resentment towards my mother and I had no idea, as a small child, that's what I formed and how my father responded, and he just blamed my mother. No one asked me are you okay? How are you feeling? I have this huge bruise on my shin. It didn't break my leg. My leg did not break. It's amazing. And so I still have a scar there. It's amazing, and so I still have a scar there, although that is just.

Speaker 2: 10:39

We have these scars, we wear these experiences and it's how we're relating to ourselves. So that is what I love to do, in person or online, working with people but it's very gentle. We're melting the outer layers. I had that huge experience because I was in it. Right, I was in that. This was my third in-person experience. I was very aware of how to connect with the breath and my body, and that doesn't mean people can't have that same experience either in person working with a practitioner, such as myself or someone else. It's all about being open without judging ourselves, and not second guessing and just allowing to break open, because this is where we find ourselves.

Speaker 1: 11:40

I love that quote, how we break open. This is where we find ourselves, because it's true and what you're speaking to now isn't just a practice. It's science-backed, it's lived experience, which is from where I stand and where a lot of the listeners stand, and it resonates more with people because they can connect not just from the emotion, but also to science and your own experience and research it, but also to science and your own experience and research it. I want to touch on something now, but I know it's close to your heart, and it's the mind and body connection, because through your training, through your experiences, through your teachings and helping other people, the mind and body are connectede. Dispenser connect speaks about having heart coherence and brain coherence and the magnet and connecting the two. Can you, in your own words I know you're not joe. I love his work.

Speaker 2: 12:53

he does phenomenal stuff, yes, but you have a touch of what he does and you apply it into what you do not yes, yes, I do, and I do that with the resonance like feeling what's happening in the body and first guiding people into that pause, just a brief pause of yes you might have. So I call the snow globe effect okay. Okay. So we have this snow globe, we shake it up, this is our mind, and it's just. All those flakes are flying around, but when we pause and just take a breath and allow those flakes to settle just a bit, it doesn't have to be two hours, it could be just a matter of moments. Yeah, we'll still have a few flakes floating around.

Speaker 2: 13:44

That's going to happen, although it doesn't feel as chaotic or overwhelmed or puts us more in that hypo mode of shutdown. So, being aware of where are my feet right now, how does my left foot feel from my right foot? What would happen if I just thought about breathing a little deeper down into my feet, just being curious. What we're doing here is we're shifting the script of the thoughts. We're shifting from that sympathetic nervous system that fight, flight, freeze, fawning into the parasympathetic nervous system, into the rest and digest used to. And that's okay, is just one drop in the bucket at a time. I'm not asking for huge shifts or anything. It's just that gentle awareness that we build and that's building that relationship to ourselves that we've been disconnected from. Been disconnected from or that we never had before, such as myself growing up so desperately wanting to feel worthy, to feel that unconditional love, because that's what we all want yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1: 15:14

Thank you for sharing what. Where do people get hold of you? I know linkedin is a given here. I know you're traveling a lot because you're a full-time rv at the moment. Where can people go to get hold of you, to learn a bit more about you and to possibly book an appointment?

Speaker 2: 15:32

yes, thank you, baz. People can reach out to me through my website, livingwithintentionco, not com dot co and they can also email me, april at livingwithintention. I am on Facebook and Instagram as well, but I do a little bit more work on LinkedIn because I pay attention to who's showing up, who really wants to do the work, and that's what I'm finding with all people, whether they're housewives or professionals or new entrepreneurs. Right, people are tired of self-help books, of weekend seminars and things. Yeah, you get a little glimpse, you get a little. Oh, yeah, that feels good. Although they're ready to do the work, they're ready to show up, have these conversations and be in that space of being seen, of being heard and knowing, remembering their value. That's what we all want.

Speaker 1: 16:42

Yeah, I like that. Thank you very much for sharing that. I love this conversation. I carry it on for ages and ages, but this will just drop off, so it's okay.

Speaker 1: 16:51

Ladies and gentlemen, please go and check out April Wyatt's website livingwithintentionco not com C-O and look on her social media Obviously, linkedin, iscom, co. And look on social media Obviously, linkedin is where she spends most of her time. But also check out the other channels. Do a bit of research for yourself and I really encourage you to go and have a conversation. It's just a conversation and maybe it can help you uncover a bit more deeper insights within yourself or possibly be aware of something you were not aware of From myself. Thank you very much for listening. April, thank you very much for joining me. You're an amazing human being. Please keep doing what you're doing in the world and my audience. Please go and check her out and have a conversation. I really encourage that for myself and april. This was rice from the ashes podcast. Have an amazing day on purpose and I will see you all on the next episode. Talk soon. Be well.