Growth, Restoration & Reclamation: A New Healing Model | Ep 294

✨ What happens when you've achieved the success you were told to pursue, yet something inside still feels unfulfilled? In Episode 294, I sit down with Graham Skidmore, whose 21-year career at Rocket Mortgage eventually led to burnout and a healing journey that brought together Western science with Eastern, Indigenous, and spiritual approaches. 🌿 Rather than viewing his unique physiology solely through diagnostic labels, Graham began exploring a different question: What if these differences could also hold gifts? 🧠💫 We explore the integrated healing model behind the Harmony Health Institute, addressing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of the person. Graham shares his framework of Growth, Restoration, and Reclamation — shifting from seeing life as happening to us toward exploring what our experiences may teach us, transforming our relationship with past trauma, and reclaiming parts of ourselves we may have lost along the way. ❤️‍🩹 This conversation is an invitation to look beyond one-size-fits-all healthcare and explore what whole-person healing can mean for you. Free gift: For the first 10 people who respond by connecting with me on my website, (https://harmonyhealthinstitute.com) I will offer a free session to help people understand themselves as beings of consciousness going through an experiential learning process that expands their consciousness, gifts, abilities, and wisdom and offer guidance to assist them with healing and enjoying their journey. My Non-Profit – Girls Matter - https://girlsmatter.ca Our Book (episode 249) - Empowered: The Journey From Victim Island To Solution City: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1989849776?psc=1&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp” Introduction video about Girls Matter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view Personal Growth and CertifiacatonTrainings: Impact Maker Alliance: https://ima-hub.base44.app/explore?ref=melissa DHARMA PATH™ 4 – in – 1 designation trainings: https://amplifyimpactacademy.com/quantum-life-mastery-school Meet Your Unconscious Mind Workshop: https://amplifyimpactacademy.com/um FREE 7 Day Trial: NuCalm Products to recalibrate your nervous system / improve your sleep:: https://nucalm.com Use my promo code at checkout: YGHJ to get 15% off your monthly subscription, every month. Episode Summary: Key Takeaways Catalyst for Change: Burnout as a Rocket Mortgage executive led to a healing journey integrating Western and Eastern approaches. Western medicine's labels (ADHD, etc.) felt limiting; Eastern views reframed his unique physiology as a spiritual gift, not a defect. Integrated Healing Model: The Harmony Health Institute provides "scalable individualized care" by addressing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. This model offers choice (tech-guided vs. practitioner-led) to meet diverse needs, contrasting with Western medicine's "one box" approach. Core Philosophy: Graham Skidmore's framework—Growth, Restoration, Reclamation—shifts perspective from "things happening to us" to "things happening for us." This reframing transmutes trauma into gratitude and empowers individuals to reclaim their authentic selves. Topics Catalyst: From Corporate Burnout to Healing Journey Graham Skidmore's 21-year career at Rocket Mortgage culminated in burnout and unfulfillment despite achieving traditional success. Western Medicine's Approach: Diagnoses (ADHD, dyslexia, etc.) provided labels but felt limiting, causing a loss of confidence. Prescriptions offered temporary relief but didn't address the root cause. Integrated Healing Approach: Combined Western science with Eastern, indigenous, and spiritual practices. Shifted perspective: unique physiology is a spiritual gift, not a defect. This integrated view enabled true healing and clarified his life's purpose. The Harmony Health Institute: An Integrated Healing Model Mission: Provide "scalable individualized care" where traditional medicine leaves off, focusing on life enjoyment, not just biomarkers. Approach: Address the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. Framework: Growth, Restoration, Reclamation. Growth: Reframe life events as catalysts for learning. Restoration: Transmute trauma (guilt, shame) into gratitude. Reclamation: Reclaim lost parts of the authentic self. Structure: Offers choice in delivery (tech-guided vs. practitioner-led) and integrates diverse modalities: Traditional: Psychology, psychotherapy, chiropractic, PT, addiction counseling. Non-Traditional: Yoga, breathwork, human development (e.g., Human Design). About the Guest: Graham Skidmore is a former Rocket Mortgage executive turned entrepreneur, activist, and mystic. After reaching the traditional markers of success — six-figure income, the house, the car, the country club membership — he found himself burned out, miserable, and unfulfilled. That collapse became the catalyst for a deeper healing journey, one he now teaches as a cycle of personal growth: restoration of the genuine, authentic self and reclamation of the connection with the higher self — transforming life events from happening to us into happening for us. Graham now works at the intersection of consciousness, healing, and human potential, building life-centric ecosystems — education, tools, community, and systems — that give people the infrastructure to understand themselves as beings of consciousness going through an experiential learning process that expands their consciousness, gifts, abilities, and wisdom. His work centers on providing power to the people, starting in the health and wellness space, and reflects his belief that technology, including AI, should be used to enrich human agency rather than replace it. His broader mission is to build bridges that deepen our understanding of the human spectrum and experience — he sees this work as creating space for new ways of being to emerge during Earth's justice-through-restoration period, focused on living in alignment with the divine intelligent design. He believes that when individuals are truly supported, we can build a world of happy, healthy, productive, and empowered people. Contact: Website: https://harmonyhealthinstitute.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmonyhealthinstitute?utm_source=qr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-skidmore?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app Youtube: https://youtube.com/@understandingthescienceofyou?si=6p7y8ailISDVfg4w About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you! Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world.Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler. Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/yourguidedhealthjourney Thanks for listening! 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