From Trauma to Transformation: The Power of Somatic Healing with Cassandra Love Lambert

What happens when years of traditional healing and personal development efforts leave you feeling incomplete? Join me for a profound conversation with Cassandra Love Lambert, affectionately known as C-Love, who shares her journey from childhood trauma and CPTSD to a life of empowerment and peace. After years of temporary fixes, Cassandra found solace and transformation through her relationship with a higher power and the life-changing power of somatic work, particularly the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Discover how her journey of overcoming high anxiety and rebuilding her life offers hope for those navigating their own paths to healing.

WARNING: This episode may affect those who have experienced sexual abuse or know someone affected by it.

Guest Bio:

Cassandra Love Lambert, the visionary behind C-Love, is a Trauma Trained Somatic Transformational Coach and Artist. Fully certified in Clinical EFT, Brainspotting, and Somatic Attachment Therapy, Cassandra is a beacon of hope and transformation for women seeking healing and empowerment.

Having faced her own battles with C-PTSD from sexual abuse and the challenges of an emotionally unavailable parent, Cassandra's journey to self-love and wholeness has deeply informed her practice. Her personal experiences have led her to the life-changing power of somatic-based work, particularly Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).

With unwavering dedication, Cassandra offers a unique 10-week "Pain into Power Process," using EFT as a cornerstone to help women transform their pain into personal strength and resilience. Her mission is to guide clients to feel safe in their bodies, fully experience all of their emotions, and unlock their authentic selves, enabling them to show up in their lives and thrive.

Cassandra's passion for helping women thrive shines through in every aspect of her work. She understands the struggle to survive and is committed to lighting the path to flourishing.

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Karen Sarmento is a passionate and dedicated Nurse Practitioner for more than 18 years, CEO at Sarmento Mentoring Services LLC, and a Proctor Gallagher Certified Mindset Mentor. She specializes in empowering women to tap into their true potential. She understands the unique challenges faced by women because she too has battled some major challenges in her life. Karen does not let that define her; she believes it’s the challenges that have made her the limitless woman she is today. She whole-heartedly believes we hold all the power within and that we should stand tall together in the pursuit of greatness.

Karen has served thousands over the course of her career and has spent many years studying directly with world class mentors to gain a deep understanding of the science behind human behaviour and learning about the success principals that create lasting change and transformation. She will share her insights with you so you can feel unstoppable and limitless too.

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Transcript

Karen Sarmento:

0:01

Have you ever felt that inner whisper nudging you towards something greater? We truly are a force of nature possessing our own incredible power within. We are all here to identify our own personal definition of success. We all have a story to tell. Join me as I dive into empowering concepts and have powerful conversations with extraordinary humans who have shattered limitations, overcome adversity and created remarkable success. I'm your host, Karen Sarmento, and we are meant for more. Hello and welcome to another episode of We Are Meant For More. Today, I have the absolute privilege of bringing to you my friend, Cassandra Love Lambert, also known to many as C-Love. Welcome, Cassandra.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

1:06

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Karen Sarmento:

1:13

My pleasure. It's actually our pleasure, for sure. I'm actually going to read your introduction directly from the bio that you provided, because I don't want to leave anything out and it's so impressive. So Cassandra Love Lambert, the visionary behind C-Love, is a trauma-trained somatic transformational coach and artist, Fully certified in clinical EFT, brain spotting and somatic attachment therapy. Cassandra is a beacon of hope and transformation for women seeking healing and empowerment. Having faced her own battles with CPTSD from sexual abuse and the challenges of an emotionally unavailable parent, Cassandra's journey to self-love and wholeness has deeply informed her practice. Her personal experiences have led her to the life-changing power of somatic-based work, particularly emotional freedom technique, also known as EFT. She's got unwavering dedication and offers a unique 10-week program Pain into Power Process, using EFT as a cornerstone to helping women transform their pain into personal strength and resilience. There's so much to your story and what you do, so I'm really thankful that you're here and sharing so other people can also learn from you.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

2:39

Yeah, and I'm grateful to be here to share because, like, that journey was crazy.

Karen Sarmento:

2:49

When you hear me read that, what comes to mind for you, what jumps out at you?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

2:55

I don't know Just like how hard and long that journey was and like how, when I was in it, like I didn't see a light at the end of any tunnel, like I just felt so stuck in so much darkness for a very long time and I didn't have, I didn't know how to get out, and it kind of made me really addicted to wanting to become better and it sent me down paths of healing that weren't helpful first, obviously, and then I finally, when I had my daughter, ended up on a path that was helpful. And it's so interesting too because with my daughter came creator God. Before that I was trying more of like the like you know, new agey healing stuff or like the very woo-woo spiritual stuff. However, found was like those things might help, like temporarily. However, they didn't really get to roots of anything and truly transform anything, and it was.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

3:53

I had a lot of anger towards a higher power like to me, if there was a higher power, like why would they allow me as a child to go through like all the awful things I went through? It just didn't feel fair and it felt very forgotten and not cared for. So I had a lot of anger there, a lot of frustration. And when I had my daughter and like it felt like none of the healing I had done before her made a dent and I was just overwhelmed by everything because all of a sudden I had to take care of this little child in a world that I never felt safe in, I was like, well, I've tried so many things, might as well try this, you know thing that I haven't tried. So I faced this relationship with creator.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

4:40

It felt awkward, it felt weird, foreign, like I didn't know how to pray. I didn't, I felt silly praying. I I know I had in my years tried to pick up the bible and like I was like what is this? I can't make sense of this. And then all of a sudden it just started making sense, um, and it guided me towards the somatic work, which is where I really found like relief. Before I was a high function, like a high functioning, high anxiety person and I didn't even realize that you could actually like not be that um. But yeah, the somatic work really helped and obviously having repairing that connection to creator helped as well, because it also repairs your connection to your higher self and your intuition and you know, just like being more amicable with life versus like feeling trapped in hell.

Karen Sarmento:

5:35

So the healing portion of it, or sustained healing, began with healing. Yeah, yeah, recreating a relationship with your creator, with God.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

5:47

Yeah.

Karen Sarmento:

5:48

So what was that turning point? What did that look like? When you finally felt like you know what I'm doing isn't working long term, or the change isn't long term. And now you have this child who and I can relate to you on that piece right there, because when I went through my really dark time, when my son's father had passed away unexpectedly, I was going through my own stuff and I just wasn't showing up for him and there's such a guilt around that. But certainly our children, they're our greatest teachers and they're our motivators. We just want to be better for them. So that was one of my big turning points. Somebody had told me once what you don't fix in yourself, you pass along to your child, and to me that was like gut wrenching. So I started on a journey like like that as well. So that turning point when you decided to repair the relationship with your creator to somebody outside right now, listening who's in that dark place what did that look like? What did you? How did you take those first steps?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

6:59

well, it was so I've always, like when I was a kid it was like I knew I wanted to go to church, right, but my mom wouldn't take me because, like her parents used to make her go to church so she didn't want to go. So it's like like my little self, child self, knew and I was baptized as a child because I have a god, family and everything, but it was just like we weren't practicing or, like you know, like that connection wasn't like strongly established, so like the seeds were planted, like God was around, you know. But I went through a lot of childhood trauma, got sexually abused, and then my mom was, you know, emotionally unavailable. A lot of her tendencies were also like narcissistic. When I became a teenager it felt like she was competing with me for male attention and she would do things that made me very uncomfortable. Like she would come downstairs when I had a boyfriend over and negligee and have these like conversations about sex that were really uncomfortable for me. Or there were times she would call me in the room with porn on, knowing like I couldn't handle, like even sex scenes in movies, like I had a strong reaction to it because of being sexually abused, and she would just tell me like, oh, you need to get over it, so like, and that kind of set the tone to like, just witnessing my mom you know she was in and out of abusive relationships I kind of followed the same path, even though I didn't want to. So in my twenties I was in and out of abusive relationships, some worse than others. Um, there was one that broke my thumb, like totaled my car, like pretty physically abusive too, but like I ended up on the.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

8:49

The healing path that I guess was like hype, the hype healing the woos, the popular culture stuff, the like trendy stuff, because you know that's what people were doing around me. So I I was like, okay, well, let me try this. I also attempted, you know, personal development world as well. You know, like PSI seminars, I checked out Landmark, you know Tony Robbins type things too, and there were a lot of things within that that were helpful, right, like the PSI community I really love they were helpful. However, they didn't get to roots of things and I would walk away sometimes feeling like something was wrong with me because, like, logically, I got like philosophy of what they're teaching and stuff, but something inside of me just wouldn't like shift or heal, or you know work through that stuff, even like with the other. You know more woo-woo stuff like Reiki or energy work or crystals, or you know all the, or working with shamans doing ayahuasca, like it felt like there was just something not integrating or truly transforming the wounds. So, landing at Creator, it was like the thing I hadn't tried. So, landing at Creator, it was like the thing I hadn't tried.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

10:08

And I was also in a women's entrepreneur group Shield Maiden, and the coach, satema Ghali, was very Christian-based, very church-going father and husband, and then some of the other women I was in the group with were also, and so it made me more and more curious. So I would ask questions Well, how do you do this? And like I wasn't getting straight answers, so I just, you know, started to take the steps. And so what kind of step did I take? I attempted to read my Bible. That was the step I took. I attempted to pray, even though I felt very silly. I was like, well, let me try this. And I actually ended up at this school called the Foundation of Spiritual Development it's the more open type faith. But what did happen was it did give me a clear connection to prayer and connection to creator which I hadn't had before.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

11:05

In a way to do it, and through repetition and discipline, I have a more clear channel with creator and I know when other energies are kind of blocking that signal because we live in a world full of all kinds of stuff and so we can get clouded by things that aren't aligned energetically. So I've learned how to like really hold my energy and that connection more clearly than I had before through that and then went went to bible study, so more christian-based, like just navigating these different things and being open to it, and we're really learning discernment on like that's not it, like you kind of start to tune into what that frequency or vibration is and what's truth and what isn't. And reading the bible was interesting because, like before, it felt like a foreign language and then all of a sudden it all made sense and it was just so interesting like it didn't make sense until I guess I was meant it was meant to for me, but yeah, no, thank you for sharing that.

Karen Sarmento:

12:14

So there's now a would you call it a faith in what's ahead of you or the steps that you're taking, and just a trust in the process now.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

12:25

Oh yeah, that was hard right. Trusting the process, cause, like walking by faith, you don't see the road. It's more of like you just get that feeling for like, okay, this is the next step and you take it, but you're not quite sure where it's leading. It's almost like walking by Braille, like it's like you're kind of feeling into it as you go. Yeah, scary at first, oh yeah.

Karen Sarmento:

12:50

So you, you've done so much in healing and and now you're helping other women do the same. So, to the woman that is sitting in, maybe a similar situation that you were in maybe has been sexually abused, which leaves somebody feeling shameful or guilty or alone. What would you say to that person that's feeling small and alone right now? What would you say to them as their first step or just in general?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

13:26

what would you say, hmm, yeah, yeah, it's a hard place to be in. I was in it many times. I would tell them to yeah, a really great first step is meditation, so they can like turn off the noise outside and the world and just really tune into themselves and really feel their own essence essence. So what that can look like is grounding and like you're a tree and then imagining yourself in a bubble of protection because nothing's allowed to be in your space. You get to decide what comes in your space, so you're allowed to have protection around you. And then I would tell them to imagine anything in their space that isn't theirs to like show up as dust and then just imagine a vacuum sucking it right out. And then just imagine any people that are trying to pull on their energy or their attention, just kind of seeing them as weeds and kind of like gardening their garden, because nobody's allowed to put a weed in their garden unless they allow it, so they're allowed to just like hand those over to creator. And then just imagine a golden light coming from as far up in the universe as possible. This is a healing light, creator light, just coming down to the top of your head and in, and then just like sitting in that and breathing with, maybe music.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

14:53

What really helped me with meditation was focusing on hearing myself breathe, because if I'm really trying to hear myself breathe, it's really hard to have a thought at the same time. And the more that you do that you can get more in tune with your own energy and also it starts to kind of calm down the chaos that might be around you and then it also can get you connected to creator in a less awkward way because you are pulling down that creator light of healing. Yeah, the more that you do that you'll start to get more clarity and answers and this is one of the tools I actually learned at that school that really helped me because before that I just felt super bombarded by everyone and everything all the time, like other energies, other people, other like everything was pulling on me all the time. So it was really hard to even know who I was or my energy or think clearly or not be in reaction. So it can really help you get more responsive versus reactive and then that way you can make more conscious, aligned choices.

Karen Sarmento:

16:09

Two things I noticed about that. It almost looked like, when I asked you the question, that you sat with it for a moment I don't know if you get a download to answer the question Like it really comes from within when you're speaking.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

16:21

Yeah, I don't know where it comes. Yeah, it comes through like the channeling piece.

Karen Sarmento:

16:28

Yeah, no, that's really powerful and you've developed that over time, or at least learned to listen to it over time. Yeah, and the second piece that struck me there was when envisioning the bubble and the white light coming in. It sounds like it's a safe place for someone who feels at that point like the world isn't safe.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

16:51

Yes, yeah, because you're allowed to create that for yourself, and it's important to create that for yourself, and it's important to cultivate that for yourself.

Karen Sarmento:

16:59

So the healing begins within. So you take back some of the control that maybe you feel like was lost. It's very empowering.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

17:08

Yeah, yeah, it's a way to have a little bit more empowerment back. So if you just feel like a rag doll that's just tossed around crisis to crisis to crisis, that's where you really ground, like, really see those roots, really become that tree. It will help a lot too, and like you can make your bubble big like huge right, take up as much space as you need energetically, because, especially in this day and age, we have stuff flying at us all the time information, just internet, all this stuff all the time, info overload, technology overload. So really cultivating that energetic space for yourself is important now more than ever, because we're just constantly bombarded by everyone and everything all the time.

Karen Sarmento:

17:56

So tell me, or tell the audience, what you do with women, what is emotional freedom technique? And also, you mentioned brain spotting. I had never heard of that before. Oh, yes.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

18:12

So EFT is emotional freedom techniques and what I love about it is it's kind of like a concoction of many different modalities, like acupressure, because the points that you tap on are actual acupressure points. It also has a little bit of exposure therapy, because you're going to kind of expose someone in a gentle way to whatever it is that's activating them or triggering them, whether it's a memory or you know just a moment but at the same time you're helping them release and move through that thing in a very gentle way and it actually releases it and gets it to process through, gets it to process through. So then it's actual memory versus someone living in that over and over and over again in their subconscious and being trapped in that experience, which is why their body has the triggers and activations that it has right, so really setting them free. So I really love that part. It's like rescuing these parts of them that are still living in the nightmare, the terror, through EFT. And also, eft is great for self-regulation or, you know, moments of distress or just day-to-day anxiety, like to just help you not have to be super dysregulated all the time or not feeling safe. It really helps you also tune into your body so you have a better relationship with your emotions and the messages that your body is trying to tell you, because our body's always speaking to us and it's just like we haven't been taught how to listen to it, to actually give it what it needs, right, and it's a great form of self-validation. So you stop looking and seeking validation outside of yourself. You can be the source of your self-validation, which helps tremendously and is empowering.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

20:05

And then brain spotting I really love because like it's a baby. The way I explain it was simply is it's a baby birth from EMDR. And EMDR was created for veterans originally who had war trauma and they saw like the brain trauma with like war vets and sexual abuse survivors was kind of similar ish not the same but similar-ish. So then they started using EMDR with like sexual abuse survivors. However, a lot of therapists were hitting walls with that, so they created brain spotting from that, which to me because I've done EMDR and I've done brain spotting with myself and for me EMDR was too harsh, like I would feel really sick after sessions I would be at work, like with music playing, and all of a sudden feel like I was in hell, didn't know who to trust, like it was really scary and it would make yeah, make me feel really nauseous and things. Whereas brain flooding I never felt that way.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

21:10

But we find a spot in your field of vision. So it uses the power of your eyes, which is really powerful, because our eyes are connected to our central nervous system and all our organs. So it uses the power of our eyes and all those muscles to find a spot in your field of vision so you can mindfully process and whatever it is you're working on right. So what's great about brain spotting is it can hit all the neural pathways that are connected to something, so all the memories, all the things that are connected to that one thing all at once, whereas with EFT you have to be more specific and do it thing by thing.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

21:50

Brain spotting it kind of hits like a greater span of things all at once and it's bottom up processing, so it really processes from, like, the organs, the nervous system, all the way up to the cognitive part of the brain. So by the time it really reaches here, it's embodied right. And, whereas traditional talk therapy is, uh, top down and it's very logic based, you can only go so far with that before you have to address what's going on in the body because you can't think your way out of the feelings you're having. You can't think your way out of the triggers. You have to feel your way through to release them. So, no matter what, there comes a time where everyone has to do the somatic work what.

Karen Sarmento:

22:38

There comes a time where everyone has to do the somatic work. So fascinating. So the somatic work for the things that, would you say, are stored in your body.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

22:42

Yeah, we store it in our bodies, we store it in our organs, we store it in our nervous system, and so you can't talk your way out of that, right, you have to really some little by little, you know, somatically, release those things so they can actually process through, because you can't, can't bypass your own system. Your system knows.

Karen Sarmento:

23:05

Yes, you can't. I think I really hope everybody's hearing that right there, because sometimes people don't realize that that a traumatic event you're holding onto it somewhere, it's stored somewhere and being released in ways that are maybe out of your control or come out unexpectedly in different ways. So that's really so informative for people to know.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

23:31

Yeah. And a way to even tell that you're you're still, like, impacted by a memory is like, if you think of it, does anything in your body light up? Do you feel like a sensation in your body when you think of that memory? Like, if you really allow yourself to go there, are you still feeling it in your body and that lets you know like, oh yeah, there's still some in there, right Like, still some in there, right, like yeah. So when you say versus it being kind of like a movie, like oh, I know that happened and you know it's like a movie, but it's not impacting my body when I think of it, you know what I mean.

Karen Sarmento:

24:04

When you say think of a memory, does a part of your body light up. What do you mean by light up? What would that like? Hurt, or what is that?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

24:16

Oh yeah, like so, obviously, obviously, like you can get lit up with joy, but we don't.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

24:18

We don't need to work on that, right?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

24:20

Like that's fine, right, you want to keep those ones, you want to allow yourself to feel those, obviously.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

24:27

But like, if you think of a memory and like you feel sick to your stomach still, or like you're wanting to cry, or like you feel, you know, anxiety in your chest or fear still, like those are indicators that that memory hasn't been fully processed and then, because it hasn't been fully processed, it probably will. It will impact you now anytime anything similar-ish happens. You'll get triggered by it, but it will have extra gas because it will also have that past experience behind it and so your current person that activated this is getting the brunt of current thing that happened and past all at once coming out at them, and so it can mess up relationships so the response to a situation may be out of proportion yeah, because you have the unprocessed memories and trauma that makes sense and we so often want to brush uh right by things that are uncomfortable or painful and just stuff them in and start smiling and laughing, and but there it is just being pushed in to come out at another time.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

25:40

Another time in a way that probably you're not going to like, right? So yeah, the work I do too is just people establishing a new relationship with their body and emotions so that it's more of their friend versus like, oh I'm wrong, why am I feeling this? And trying to stay so busy? Or all the ways people try to distract or avoid feeling that stuff.

Karen Sarmento:

26:04

So fascinating. You mentioned revisiting memories or if a memory still hurts a part of your body or lights up a part of your body. You had posted a video of yourself visiting a home that you had been abused in. Yeah, and that was a really powerful. Actually I get goosebumps even just thinking about it because I felt for you in the video itself was so powerful. Was that healing for you? Or had you already healed it and it was okay to be there, like because you had healed so many.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

26:40

Two steps, two measures reminding me because, yeah, going there, I can't believe this building is still standing, to be honest, because the energy coming off of that place is awful like and obviously it is so dark.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

26:56

I felt it, yeah, yeah, and this wasn't the first time I went back to it as an adult. I did it like, I think 10 years ago too, and like just being there, going to the front door, even seeing, like you know, there was this little shack in the backyard still after all these years that I used to play in um, but like yeah, I don't, I don't, like I, I know it's a dark place, like you can sense the darkness in this, the building and the walls and everything, but like it doesn't like impact me like that anymore. It's more like holy crap, I can't believe I survived this. Like Like, like wow, you know, like how did a bright light even come?

Karen Sarmento:

27:39

out of me. It was always in there. It was always in there. Yeah, well, that that's the beauty of what you just said. So you went there. You had done so much work, so it is possible to heal that. And then not only heal it, but you are such a bright light. So Cassandra and I are on a platform together called Women Thrive, and that we're both going to be speakers at an event. So that's how I met you, and from the very first call that we were on together, your energy was just. You're just radiant, and so talk about a bright light coming from somebody who'd come from a dark place. Yeah, so it is like you had to do the work. I'm just blown away by that, because I think it's so beautiful to realize that from that pain, you had such a massive purpose and there is such a message in that, and I applaud you for for allowing others to benefit from that.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

28:44

Yeah, it takes courage.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

28:46

Oh, so much courage Cause you know like that wasn't the only dark place I was at in my life right, that's just one, and it was. I feel dark place I was at in my life right, that's just one, and it was. I feel like almost I was stuck in dark places on purpose, to like like now that I look back, I just feel like I was stuck in those dark places so that those would be the people I could reach later, because I remember too, as a child like I seen a lifetime movie. It was like somebody going through something similar-ish and like I remember sitting on a tree outside and like the wind just like kind of like breezing over me and just feeling like a part of me or something knew that the things that I had went through that were so hard, were going to help people.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

29:27

So I've had that awareness for a long time. I just didn't know how it would come about or what that looked like or anything like that, and I also had more hard things to go through too. So it was very hard. But to be where I am now, yeah, I guess I wouldn't change any of the things that I went through, because I might not be where I'm at right now with the awareness that I have now. Yeah, I wouldn't change it.

Karen Sarmento:

29:56

Beautiful and people often hear me say and I didn't create the statement, but I loved it so much so I use it all the time but we are most qualified to help the person that we used to be For sure.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

30:10

Cause you've actually walked those steps right, like it's not like textbook learning, it's like I've been there, I've walked through it, you know. So you really feel where someone is at.

Karen Sarmento:

30:24

Such a powerful message. Is there anything else that you would like to share with the audience that you think would be helpful, or that we? You know and I did want to touch upon? You're also an artist. Oh yeah, tell me about that part of you. There's so much more to you. Tell me about that part of you?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

30:42

Yeah, that actually. So I've always been right Like I was drawn to, like art, drawing and theater. I was a thespian in high school Cause to me, me like reading and art and stuff was a great escape, you know, from family life, which was really hard. However, and I went to the fashion institute and I was in acting classes forever just because I really loved like I feel like acting classes are great to help you explore your being and stuff, and it to me, like a lot of the classes I was in was like improv or whatever, so you got to really express yourself where, like maybe in real life I was scared, but I actually went to a festival Burning man and, oh my God, the art there is out of this world. Amazing. Artists come from all over the world and they build these sculptures and there's just art everywhere.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

31:34

Because I remember I went to fashion institute and I was like how am I going to make money doing this? Right? So like I kind of went on a tangent other ways, um, but going to this festival really like rebirthed and rekindled my inner artist and so, when I was facing being a single mom, starting my life over from scratch at my mom's house, my intuition guided me towards. You know what I'm going to go? Ask this person that I've invited people to her events before if I can set up in the back of her event. And so she said yes and I wrote out signs One say hi, two, sit down. Three, become art and I taped them above me. I actually have a YouTube video of this because I kept the signs, because I'm so sentimental, like that.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

32:22

I think it's funny, but like I was super pregnant and people would sit with me and they'd get their face painted and I thought it was just like a thing to like get by, you know, while I was figuring out my life, like my life purpose and this and that, and it kept growing and it was my thriving business for 10 years of the pandemic.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

32:44

Yeah, we were working with Google, uber, like American Airlines, like we were just working all over the place, you know, parties, events, weddings, and I was helping other moms make supplemental income too. It was a lot of fun. We ended up in the coolest places and like it's magic, quite literally, like if you look at, like I say, face painting and makeup and stuff, but like when you see the pictures, you're like wow, cause it's not like your typical like face paint thing, right? No, it's stunning. Yeah, I would have kept doing that, um, but then the pandemic came, so then I had to pivot, which, I mean, is great that I pivoted to this other somatic work. However, I'm always and will be an artist at heart, for sure.

Karen Sarmento:

33:29

Oh, people, people have got to check out your feet, is it, would you say, facebook is the best place to check out your work, because it's absolutely stunning. The.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

33:40

Instagram too. Yeah, I feel like Instagram. If you go digging in there, you'll definitely find it on Instagram or Facebook. Yeah.

Karen Sarmento:

33:48

Okay, oh my gosh, it's absolutely's absolutely stunning. Yes, when you say face painting, it definitely underrushes me, it doesn't do it justice, yeah doesn't. It doesn't do it justice at all. It's beautiful and stunning and elegant and it's wild, oh my gosh and I've seen a lot of braiding too that you do hair yeah, you do the braids too, the creative braids with all the colors and stuff too.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

34:15

It's just so fun because it's like a transformation right. So that was the thing too. I used to transform people on the outside, you know, with like look and appearance, but now, with the Pain Into Power process, I'm helping them transform on the inside. You know the lasting change on the inside.

Karen Sarmento:

34:31

Yes, certainly life changing. Yeah, so do you have any final parting words or anything you would want to share with others, or anything we should know about you that I haven't touched upon?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

34:46

Yeah, my book, my book is actually going to be. It's on presale right now and it's going to be officially out, like on Amazon, in October, november. And it's funny that, like the things we talked about, because it's my memoir and it's called Into the Light Becoming my Own Hero. So it's all about that journey of like and it goes more in detail about all the like phases and stages that I went through and with my family, and healing from all of that and transcending it all Right. So, yeah, I'm excited for that for sure, cause it could be.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

35:22

The intention is that it's like a roadmap so you can learn through my mistakes. You know my, my mistakes and the choices I made that weren't so great, and then what I did do that did work too. So then maybe it can help be a roadmap for others in similar situations. Absolutely. When did you say you think the book will be available On Amazon? It will be available, like October November, and it's on presale. Now I have a link for presale to Ikoi Send. But yeah, it will be officially on the Amazon October November. It's in the final edits now.

Karen Sarmento:

36:03

Into the light, becoming my own hero. Yeah, love that. Okay, so I will definitely have all your contact information in the show notes, as well as the link to purchase the book. If this comes out when the pre-sale is done, it'll be to purchase the book. Where else would you direct people to find you?

Cassandra Love Lambert:

36:24

Yeah, definitely. My Instagram is a great place. So C underscore love underscore Lambert. So C underscore love underscore Lambert. And you can always look up my website to CassandraLoveLambertcom.

Karen Sarmento:

36:38

Okay, wonderful. Thank you so much, Cassandra, for being here. I so appreciate it.

Cassandra Love Lambert:

36:44

Yeah, thank you for having me. This is a great conversation.

Karen Sarmento:

36:50

It was such a powerful message. I think you're amazing and your work is amazing. Thank you so much. Yes, and I can't wait for the book to come out. That's absolutely beautiful. I know so many people need that. So thank you to everybody for listening. If there's anybody you feel would benefit from this episode, please share. And Cassandra love Lambert see love. Thank you very much for being here. Remember, whatever challenges you're facing or have faced in the past, they don't define you. You are worthy, capable and destined for greatness. You are worthy, capable and destined for greatness. Let's embrace the whispers of possibility together, because together we rise and we are meant for more.

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