184 The Mind-Body Connection with Jamie Star Crawford184 The Mind-Body Connection with Jamie Star Crawford
You're Sober! Now What?
Jamie Star Crawford shares how years of depression, illness and addiction led her to holistic mind‑body healing and integration coaching. The conversation focuses on trauma, codependency, small daily wins and building a more aligned path in long‑term recovery.
57:41•28 Feb 2022
Rewriting Your Map: Jamie Star Crawford on Mind, Body and Recovery
Episode Overview
- Addiction can show up in behaviours like relationships, food and escape, not just drugs and alcohol.
- Childhood stories about worth and perfection can drive long‑term emotional and physical distress.
- Celebrating small daily wins helps the brain recognise growth and supports new, healthier habits.
- Working with mind, emotions, body, spirit and environment together offers a fuller path to change.
- Community and honest sharing with others, especially in groups, can reduce shame and increase healing.
“We are all human. It doesn't matter the background, the condition, the circumstance. We feel the same emotions.”
What drives someone to seek a life where the mind, body, emotions, and spirit finally work together? This episode follows Jamie Star Crawford as she talks with host Tamar Medford about how years of depression, chronic illness, anxiety, addiction and self‑sabotage pushed her towards a different way of living.
Jamie introduces herself simply: "I'm human." From there, she explains how childhood pressure, perfectionism and emotional repression led to diagnoses like bipolar and ADHD, long‑term physical pain, and a deep belief that she "didn't matter." Alcohol, relationships and food became ways to escape and feel expressed, even when the consequences were brutal. Things changed after a devastating breakup and suicidal depression. Jamie describes that point as a clear fork in the road: keep going or change completely.
She chose change, and spent years studying and practising tools like NLP, breakthrough therapy, M.E.R, Reiki, psychedelic integration, shadow work and inner child healing, eventually becoming an integration life coach. You'll hear how she works holistically with clients – mind, emotions, body, spirit and environment – helping them redraw their "map" from insecurity and limitation to alignment and choice.
She and Tamar talk about addiction beyond substances, from social media to relationships, and why codependency and food can feel like "newcomer" territory even after years sober. A big theme is the mind‑body link: how stored trauma shows up as pain, anxiety and gut issues, and how noticing progress, celebrating small wins and practising self‑love routines can gradually rewire those old patterns.
Jamie shares her group work with women and her course "Truth Serum for the Soul," built around honest self‑reflection, community and practical tools for change. If you're curious about what lies beyond simply not drinking, and how to work with your whole self instead of against it, this conversation might be the nudge you need. What new kind of map are you ready to draw for your recovery?
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