In this episode, Tim Hayes sits down with Martha Glory Kartaoui to discuss her incredible journey of healing from trauma. Martha shares deeply personal insights from her life, including her escape from a cult and the long, difficult path to reclaiming her identity and sense of self-worth. If you’ve ever felt alone in your struggles or wondered how to begin your own healing process, this episode offers a beacon of hope and practical advice for turning trauma into triumph.
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Martha Glory Kartaoui Author Of Glory – Going All In: Cult Survivor To Courageous Warrior
Introduction And Catching Up
Martha Glory Kartaoui is a resilient and courageous warrior who has transformed her life from being a cult survivor to becoming an influential voice and leader in the wellness industry. As the Owner of PIC Wellness LLC, she is dedicated to helping others achieve their best overall holistic health, mind, body, and spirit. Martha is also an Amazon bestselling international author, a dynamic speaker, a life visionary, and a skilled healing workshop facilitator.
Her unique blend of professional training, personal experience, and spiritual wisdom enables her to walk alongside survivors and support profound warrior transformations. Her own healing journey and insights inspire others making her a beacon of hope. Martha is dedicated to assisting individuals seeking to reclaim their lives in order to thrive in their own journey toward self-discovery and divine fulfillment.
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Martha, welcome. Thank you for joining me.
Thank you so much for having me.
Overview Of Martha’s Journey And Book
I’m delighted to be able to talk to you about your book, Glory: Going All In. There’s so much of your story in the book that I like to throw it open and ask you what you’re hoping people will take most from a book like this. It is so rich and so full of your personal life story.
To put it in an acorn nutshell, what I want them to take away is that our trauma doesn’t have to define us. We get to rewrite our story at any time, but it is a choice and it has to be intentional. The other takeaway is that you’re not alone in your pain and your trauma. That’s one of the hardest things that I had to learn. After all the experiences that I had that I shared in the book, I felt so alone in my pain.
Our trauma doesn't have to define us. We get to rewrite our story at any time, but it is a choice and has to be intentional. You are not alone in your pain. Share on XI thought, “Nobody’s going to understand my story. Nobody’s going to understand what I’ve been through. It’s too crazy and painful. It’s too whatever.” I stayed alone in that pain for over a decade. Before I was like, “No, there’s got to be a different way. There’s got to be healing. There’s got to be something more.” That was a big illusion that I was under that nobody would understand because pain is pain. Trauma is trauma. Only because they didn’t share cult trauma. Their trauma is trauma and people do relate. That’s the other takeaway.
When you say that for over a decade, I thought that are you marking that from the time that you got out of the cult at 28?
Yes, I escaped the cult when I was 25. I’ve been on this healing journey for many years, and it was the first decade before I could talk about this at all publicly outside of my family or a very few close friends. I didn’t talk about it. I just couldn’t. That would be the decade that I’m referring to. It’s that first decade after I escaped. If you include the two and a half decades that I was in the cult, you didn’t talk about what was going on then. You don’t whisper about what’s going on then. Not even to your own family.
That’s one of the very difficult things for people outside of a situation like this to comprehend that even within your own biological family, the secrecy was so pervasive. The fear was so well nurtured and cultivated. People can read in your book about the horrors. Sometimes in books like that, people say, “Feel free to skip through this part if you want.” I encourage people to just read it because I don’t think you put a lot of the gory details that would be inappropriate.
However, what I like to do, especially when there’s evidence, you presented it that people can read your book and they can hear about the trauma. How did you get to at least start on the path of healing? To begin with that question, how did you break that within your own mind that owns cycle of, “I can’t ever change. I’m just too damaged?”
Understanding The Impact Of Trauma On The Body
That idea was pervasive. I’m just too broken. I’m just too damaged. There’s nobody that can help me. Nobody will understand, but what happened in my particular case, my physical body started breaking down. I started having outward manifestations of a very inward issue. My trauma was the inward issue that I was covering up, bearing, and swallowing.
Eventually, I was in my early 30s and my physical body just started breaking down. I had chronic migraines, back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, and PTSD. I had this litany of diagnoses from all these specialists because my body was breaking down. My body could no longer withstand all of the trauma that I had buried for so long.
I didn’t understand at that point and neither did our Western medicine and healthcare system that there was a connection between the two because I was not yet talking about my trauma. I wasn’t yet drawing that conclusion. My physical body’s breaking down and I ended up in a continuing education class because I’m a manual massage therapist.
I was in a continuing education class for cymatics and we started talking about how trauma is stored on a cellular level in our bodies. There was just this like day lounge of bells and whistles going off going, “Da da da. Martha, this is you.” It was that moment where I was like, “It’s all connected. All of this is connected. All of my outward stuff is a manifestation of an inward problem.” That is when I grabbed the bull by the horns and I said, “I’m going to become my own advocate. I’m going to figure out how do I get inward to start healing that so that my body my outward body can heal.”
Trauma is stored in our bodies on a cellular level, and healing means reconnecting with ourselves, starting from the inside out. Share on XThat’s how my journey started. I started researching, reading, getting books, and anything that I could find that talked about trauma being stored on a cellular level and how to heal that. That led me to all these different modalities that I talked about in the book like EMDR, hypnosis, biofeedback, neurofeed, and all the ones that I that I talked about.
I like to think as you tell that, which I didn’t quite get from the book in that detail. Thank you for that. I like to think that what happened then was that was like some moisture and sunlight getting poured on the seed that had been planted by the gentlemen that helped you escape who introduced you to the concept that you had value enough. I forget, did you mention his name or you just talked about him?
I call him Papa and that’s what I called him.
That was so powerful to me. Did you recognize the connection you had when he came into the store?
Yes, I did. When I think back on it and, unfortunately, he’s passed on. He would be so proud of me, though. I know that he and I will reunite on the other side someday. I remember the first time that we met. It was like both of our souls were just connected on such a deep level from the moment that we saw each other. It was like these rays of light were connected. He saw me and I saw him and recognized each other on a soul level.
Over time, that relationship would flourish. That relationship would be the first trusting relationship outside of my immediate family that I ever had. Papa was my first real person and I understood him and he understood me. I could be actually Martha and what that meant. I didn’t have to carry around these lies and all of the baggage that my whole life carried because I wasn’t able to be authentically myself. Papa taught me the importance of being myself. I only scratched the surface with him before I ended up leaving the cult and then began my own life. I only had about eight years with him after I left. He didn’t get to see the full unfolding, but I know that he would be so proud.
Here’s that idea the kindness that he showed you and the connection the two of you shared was that impetus for all your future growth. Even though it didn’t take off like a rocket in the beginning. What I like to bring this up because people are going to say, “How could all of this happen?” I like to reinforce the idea that we observe in this work that it’s my secrets that keep me sick.
The mechanism behind that is if it takes me ten units of mental energy to hide something from someone. Whether I have candy in my drawer and I want everybody to think I’m a 100% healthy eater or whatever it is. That same amount of energy gets poured into feeding the conclusion within me that I’m damaged, broken, and unlovable. Whoever I’m hiding this from, this secret if they find it out. They’re either going to attack me or run away from me.
Now, that’s something that I encourage people to observe in their lives across the board, even when you’re out in a healthy and loving family or relationship or community. Even then, that dynamic is still working. Imagine how much that’s amplified in the intense violence and abusive environment you and your family were subjected to.
You’re hiding from everyone and everything. I was hiding my trauma and my abuse from my own family and the outside. I went to public school. My friends my teachers, like my very best friends and I talk about this in the book, never knew about my abuse. They never knew I belonged to a cult. They saw glimpses of the crazy behavior or the praying on our hands and knees when they would visit my house but they only got little teeny glimpses. They never asked the question. I would have lied anyway because that’s what’s ingrained in us, but nobody. Even that was the closest to us knew what I was going through in any of those years.
I flashed on the book, What My Bones Know, by Stephanie. She had friends who never knew that her mom left when she was thirteen and her dad left when she was sixteen. She was basically raising herself, made it to school, and held down jobs. When people find out after the fact, they’re shocked because there’s so much of a cover-up. There’s so much of a sense of, “I need to keep the secret to survive or to protect the people that I love.”
The same as that book, I was labeled the same thing as she was with complex PTSD. I carried that around almost like a badge for a while because it was like, “There’s an explanation for all of the things that are going on in my body. Why I can’t focus? Why my outward body is feeling me?” All of those things. I carried that around as a badge for a long time and I got the same response as she did when she finally started talking about what she had been through and being abandoned and all of those things that have transpired since.
I have my friends from my childhood going, “We had no idea. How did we not know? We shared everything.” It’s the proof of how strong our mind is for good or for evil, for protection or for good. Our ego wants to keep us protected and keep us safe. It’ll go through the ends of the Earth’s length in order to do so.
You have this awakening when you’re taking this class on cymatics and they say, “The trauma is stored in the body at a cellular level.” Let us know let us in a little bit and given the disclaimer that no one size fits all. It’s not like there’s a magic trauma reduction technique that equally works well with everybody who has tried it on. What were the most useful things for you in pulling yourself back together getting rid of some of those energies of trauma and starting on your path to healing?
If I have to rewind back to the beginning of the therapies that I tried. Talk therapy did not work for me because every time I started telling my story, the therapist’s jaw would just open and would stare wide-eyed at me. I would then start crying in a crumble. What I found is that I had to take myself back to that inwardestplace where I could find that healing, so things like EMDR, neurofeedback, and biofeedback were the three that helped me to get back into my body. I had disassociated for so long from my trauma, my physical pain, my sexual pain, and my spiritual pain.
I had disassociated for so long from those things. I had to get back in my body and people don’t understand what that means when you are truly disassociated from such extreme traumas. Neurofeedback and biofeedback helped me to tune back into who I was and to heal those deep places in order to make me available to start talking. You’re not able to start talking and to work through the things that you’ve been through until you are able to get into your own body and get back into your own story. I had to go back in order to move forward. Does that resonate?
It’s the idea that I can’t tell you what’s going on with me if I have cut it all off. Everything below here, I’m not paying attention to. I have these thoughts of words and that’s the dissociative process as an adaptive mechanism. Most people label it as psychopathology or whatever. It’s not a pathology. It’s an adaptive mechanism. It helps you stay through insane and intensely insane and abusive life events.
Now, you’ve got a reverse that process. You’ve got to convince the protective part of your mind and will say, “It’s okay now to go visit those energies. Let them go and have these memories. Be honest at different deeper levels about the thoughts you’ve had about whatever the most horrible thoughts are that we have and we hide from ourselves.”
If we want to undo the effects of them, we’ve got to go back and be on about them again because it’s just energy, information, and a thought. Our mind has labeled that as, “That’ll be our death. That’ll be the end of me if I look at that again.” It makes good sense that the EMDR helps you focus inside and does some bilateral stimulation. The neurofeedback and biofeedback would be exactly on target for you as a kinesthetically oriented person.
You just described it. Our protection brain is meant to protect us. When I left the cult, I thought I could leave everything in the past and just start a new life. I was too naive to think or to understand how all of that would follow me. In my naivete, I thought I could just never talk about it and never revisit it again. I can just start a new life and act like it’s never happened.
Unfortunately, that is an illusion. Again, it’s not how our minds work and eventually, my protection brain even freaked out. When your protection brain freaks out then everything around you begins to fall apart and that’s when you understand nothing safe. I was in a safe marriage when this happened with the most loving human that I had ever known. Yet I felt so unsafe, betrayed, and alone, but everything imploded on me. I had to start going back inward. I had to reconnect to this with this because for so long, I had just been up here.
If you think about it, it makes good sense if you understand that the protection brain at that level doesn’t have any tools for awareness of or for resolving the trauma. It has this conclusion that we can’t look there. We can’t go in that direction and we won’t survive it. Based on everything that protection brain or that younger part of me knows, that’s the truth.
That’s why it’s so important for people to get the message to ask for help because until you get some help and there is some awareness of what the problem is and what tools might be available to help me work through it and the fact that there can be support from the outside for me. That would be healthy support. Unless those things start to happen, you can’t force yourself to turn around and face those things that your brain is hiding from you.
Your brain and your nervous system. My nervous system was in a permanent state of fight or flight. If I wasn’t creating chaos in my life because of all of the years of trauma and abuse, my nervous system was like, “Whoa.” I had to retrain my nervous system. Things like cranial sacral therapy are things that helped me manage my nervous system and help my nervous system to recalibrate. That was a process in itself because I didn’t realize I was creating chaos just to survive because it’s all like new. My nervous system didn’t know how to be in a loving, stable, secure, and safe state of being. My nervous system didn’t know how to do that.
It reminds me of Peter Levine’s work with the trauma work and the somatic work and the book, Waking the Tiger. Acknowledging exactly what you’re talking about there’s been an adaptation at a visceral physical level in our central nervous system. It is so intense that becomes our norm. We aren’t aware that we have resting states and calm alert states available to us. It’s a primary target for re-education from somebody who’s had a lot of physical and sexual trauma to get them to be aware that it’s safe for them to be aware of their internal processing and allow themselves to regulate to a lower level of agitation or stimulation. What was the thing you just mentioned, the technique?
The cranial sacral therapy.
That wonderful and very gentle manipulation of energy to get the cerebral spinal fluid flowing. Were there others in the therapeutic process that helped you take your work to the next level?
Yes, and I share a lot of this in the book but I don’t go into depth about them because as you said from the beginning, one size doesn’t fit all. This is what worked for me. For me, it was a layering as I got one layer deeper going inward, I was able to expose myself to another therapy that would help me to go even further in.
Relearning How To Breathe And Heal
Some of the work that happened, once I got the nervous system regulated, some of the things that helped me then were yoga and breath work. Breathwork was very important. I didn’t realize I didn’t know how to breathe because I literally been holding my breath my entire life. What I mean by that is when you’re constantly in a state of fight or flight. The first thing you do is embrace for impact because that’s your life.
I had to relearn how to breathe and the process, even though it’s on automation. Breathing is automated. I had to relearn how to properly breathe for now my nervous system wasn’t on high alert all the time. I had to relearn how to breathe when I was regulated. I continue to have to do that because as I continue with this healing work I can continue to do it on myself because we’re never at an end goal. We’re never like, “I’m healed.” That doesn’t exist. I can continue to continually have to re-regulate and learn new practices in order to keep up with the work that I’m doing in order to continue to healing process.
I’m really glad you mentioned the breathing. I was in a session. It was somebody who was 77 years old who got exposed to a breath technique. He said after a couple minutes of that he had the deepest breath he’s had in his entire life because he had traumas in childhood. He hasn’t been breathing in that open relaxed way for 70 years. You mentioned spirituality. How do you define that? How is that practical for you in any sense?
Spirituality and faith for me have been pivotal in uncovering who I am in the deepest sense of who Martha Glory is. What I mean by that is because I had had all of these labels and identities put on me my entire life by other people, I had to uncover who Martha Glory was. I couldn’t do that without going back to, “Where did I come from? Why am I here? There’s got to be a purpose bigger than myself.” For me, that was God. I was created and made by God, in the image of God, which is love.
If I take it that elementary and for me, spirituality is that elementary. What I mean by that is I come from love, I am in love and I will go back to love. Anything that doesn’t represent that doesn’t fit in with my belief system or my faith system because everything goes back to God where I come from and who I’m created. to be in this life.
When I learned where I was created or how I was created from love. I then had to learn how to love that creation myself. That was a painful uncovering because I didn’t know how to love myself. I didn’t feel worthy of love. Even though I very much wanted to heal, I didn’t know that healing would require me to love myself or even like myself. That was a painful uncovering and I wouldn’t have been able to do that without faith and without knowing where I came from and knowing that my purpose is bigger than myself. That gave me the motivation to continue to do the work.
The hardest part of healing is realizing that you are worthy of love. It’s a painful uncovering, but it’s also the most beautiful transformation. Share on XAs you’re talking about that, my brain is bubbling up with ideas like, did you have anxious literal thoughts about how you were the reason there was a defect in you that was causing you to be abused?
Yes, because why weren’t my other siblings? Why didn’t other people have this same experience that I did? I must have been born defiled. There must have been something wrong with me that at such a young age as 8 or 9 years old, a grown man would molest me. Something was wrong with me. Not that grown man that there was a defect with him. The problem was me.
It started even younger than before the cult man would tell you specifically in those years when he was restricting your food and beating you that he would be telling you this is all your fault. Even younger than that as a natural process. We see this a lot with children. They try to make sense of their world in a way that gives them power.
If I’m getting beaten by a monster and I didn’t cause it, I’ve got no power. If I’m getting beaten by a monster and it’s only because I was bad, then I can change. I can change my bad behavior and maybe the monster won’t beat me. It doesn’t make any sense to the adult mind. Within a child’s mind, it holds perfectly together.
I carry that burden throughout my entire life into adulthood. All of the horrible things that had happened to me happened because there was something wrong with me. I was a bad and cult man who liked to talk about how our hearts were not right with the Lord or our spirit was of the devil or whatever it was. I was constantly looking at myself saying, “I’m just not aligned. My spirit is wrong or my heart is wrong. That’s why these bad things happen to me.” There’s something wrong with me. Not with the people that are perpetrating.
Two things came up as you’re just talking. One is an ancient understanding of the process of what people have called the devil. It’s an internal process of resistance that misleads us from the truth. It’s not about anything external or an outside spirit. The other thing is, here’s all of this energy that has been accumulating in you, mind energy, physical energy, or spiritual energy ever since a very young age. That’s all about how you’re damaged, you’re broken, and you’re unlovable. As you said earlier, there are probably still some remnants of it, maybe in your elbow.
Here’s an idea of a tool that people use. I call it targeted journaling. Dr. Michael Rice calls it the Mind Shifter. At one point when I was doing an internet show with somebody who had a very abusive past and childhood. I was prompted to give her this targeted journaling prompt. What we do with this, is we write this on the left side of a sheet of paper then draw a line about a third of the way towards the right margin.
We give ourselves a block of time an hour to sit and respond to this prompt and the prompt I gave her was, “There has never been nor will there ever be a person who has more value than Glory.” She came back and said, “I can’t do that because I don’t believe I’m better than anybody.” Which is part of the process. There’s nothing in that statement that says you’re better than anybody. It says, “You have the same value as everybody.” If you sit with that and let yourself respond to it as a prompt. You might uncover some more of those little nuggets where you don’t feel so loving and lovable forever.
Mirror Work And Self-Kindness
I’ve done a lot of that work and at the very beginning of that work, it was extremely painful. We have haze talks about mirror work. That was how I got initiated into this type of work that you’re talking about. That mirror work was some of the most difficult work that I’ve ever done because it’s just you and the mirror, which is a reflection of yourself. If you’re looking at that mirror and you can’t think about anything positive. All you see is all the ways that you’ve been defiled and hurt, and all the pain that you are.
If you can’t see anything positive, for many years, I didn’t even look at myself in the mirror because I couldn’t face what I saw. After I got out of the cult, from the outside, I looked way worse than I ever did inside because now I was overweight. I had all of these other outward issues where when I was in the cult I didn’t because I was constantly burying them. Now, I was safe and that’s when everything started exposing itself, but it took such a dump on my outward appearance.
It was so hard to look at myself in the mirror and say anything positive about myself, but I stayed at it until one day you’re able to say, “Martha Glory, you are kind.” You have to find one affirming word to hang on to that then the next day. You have to believe it with every fiber of your being. I had to start with emotions because I was always kind to other people. Regardless of what happened to me, I always showed up and kindness and love.
You can talk to my parents or my best friends all the way back to childhood. I was always a kind kid. I stood up for my brothers, sisters, and myself. Sometimes, that led to some fisticuffs, but for the most part, I was a kind person. I wrapped my identity around kindness when I first started this work because I knew that about myself. I could hang on to that little nugget of positivity of affirmation of something that I am until you finally go, “I am lovable. I am magnificent. I am smart. Wow. I’m a good writer. I’m strong. I’m resilient,” because that happens over time but that took a long time for me. That was probably some of the deepest hardest workouts I had to do.
No one should feel alone in their pain. There is hope, there is healing, and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Share on XI’m so glad you’re letting that out and letting people know it was a long time and some of the hardest work because that’s what we experience that. We can make little steps here and there and we can have the craving to be done. In truth, this is a process. This is not a destination I’m going for. Moment-to-moment, I can get triggered. If I’m willing to turn inside when I get triggered rather than blame people or circumstances outside of me, then I at least have a chance to move toward resolution.
The Ongoing Journey Of Healing
It’s ongoing. Thank you for pointing that out. This is ongoing. I’ve been doing this work continuously for almost a decade right but I still will catch myself looking at myself in the mirror and something will snap for just a second about my physical body or about something. I have to redirect it. I have to go back inside and take the time with the mirror. I have to be able to redirect that energy because whatever I’m sensing in that moment, mental, physical, or emotional. All of it is connected and you have to redirect it inside to where I know the truth now lies. What you see in the physical often is an illusion. You have to go inside where the truth lies in order to speak the truth over the illusion.
When I start redefining those moments of upset or those negative thoughts, originally and in a lot of our culture, we define those things as problems or the bad. If I redefine it as just a part of me coming up for healing as the alarm system to wake me up, “Tim, you got a trauma energy that’s been resonated that’s available for healing or what you’re focusing on is the wrong few bits of information or you’re focused right in the right area, but you’ve got a negative interpretation of it. Spin that kaleidoscopic wheel of interpretation until you land on something neutral or positive,” then make an attempt at understanding it.
What you’re describing, for me, I call it the interrupter. We have to interrupt that thought pattern in order to recreate the synapses that need to be formed and create true and long-standing healing. The interrupter is so important to be able to recognize when you need to ignite that because it all starts with thoughts. Our thoughts and our words are power. We either speak that over ourselves or destroy ourselves with them. You have to be able to interrupt it when it begins in order to continue to reconnect those synapses and those neuro-pathways and understand that this is true healing to be had.
I have a list of bottom-line observations I give to people in a first or second session. One of them says if I have a negative thought about myself or someone else or a negative emotion active in my mind by the energy system. I can instantly know three things. The first one is it’s either a liar based on a falsehood. The second one is this is an old tape playing. It’s not about the present moment. This is something from the past that’s up for healing.
Healing From Trauma: You’re not alone in your pain. There’s got to be a different way, there’s got to be healing, there’s got to be something more.
The third thing is if I sit and spin thinking about this if I let myself speak or act from this. I’m just going to make my life situation worse. I can’t make it better. I can’t improve my present moment experience by throwing negativity on it any more than I can improve dinner by throwing garbage on the buffet table right before dinner time. It doesn’t enhance the dining experience. If I can get that logged in and think about these things at the beginning of every day, “Tim, alert yourself when you go negative.” Catch it at the earliest warning sign. It’s so much easier and much more productive.
It takes a lot less unraveling.
Catch it before the momentum gets built.
Correct, because if you don’t, the unraveling takes just as long as how it took to get you to that point. That was another realization that I had to have for myself. You can’t do anything like this, but you can change your thought that quickly but you have to interrupt it.
I hate to acknowledge this but we’re moving towards the end of our time together. Let me ask you to take a breath and get centered and think about perhaps what’s an aspect of your book or your story that we haven’t even touched on yet that you want to put out there or one of the points you’ve made that you want to go back and highlight.
Becoming A Courageous Warrior
The title of my book is Glory: Going All In: Cult Survivor to Courageous Warrior. The reason that I talk about cult survivor to courageous warrior is because that’s been my process. I was a survivor for many years before I understood what it meant to be a courageous warrior. You can survive and never do anything positive with it. Now, my purpose and my mission aren’t just a book about my story because thousands and millions of people do that every day. I want to make an impact.
Glory Going All In: Cult Survivor to Courageous Warrior
I want this to resonate with the people who are stuck in their own traumas and their own stories and be able to see that there’s light, hope, and promise, but you have to step into your own story and your own healing. The principles that I talked about in this book, the going all in principles are all principles that I have used in my own healing in order to catapult me into this courageous warrior and what that means. Being a courageous warrior is a lot more than just courage. It’s about standing on who you are, owning your worth, your worthiness, and your love ability.
It’s about understanding truly who you were meant to be and why you are here to be that specific person at this specific time because only you can be you. That’s my mission now. It’s to be able to resonate with those people who are just surviving and offer something saying, “There’s more than just surviving. You don’t have to just stay stuck in survival mode for the rest of your life. There is something after surviving.” That’s becoming this courageous warrior and what that means to go all in as a warrior, you think the principles that I teach in the book.
That’s a powerful distinction. I know that most people who go through levels of abuse like you, Stephanie Foo and so many others do not move past surviving. They don’t have the internal fortitude and the opportunity that the gifts of support you got from Papa. It’s delightful that you’re willing to try and promote that for people and to ring the bell or bang the gong so to speak to let people know that’s possible. That a lot more than just surviving is possible. Turning your trauma into your triumphs or the seeds of your triumphs is also a possibility.
I never want to make it sound like this can be done instantaneously. This is work, but I no longer feel like it’s hard because I’m invested in myself. When I learned what it meant to love myself and what it meant I was worthy of the healing. It no longer was hard. Yes, it’s taken time and there have been hard things to overcome along the way, but it’s not hard work any longer because it’s for me.
The biggest investment we ever will make in our physical life is for ourselves. We have to invest in who we are before we have the fortitude to understand our bandwidth to invest in anybody else. For me, I want to always be very direct in saying like, “This isn’t just snap your fingers and you’re healed. It’s work, but it’s worthy work.” You’re worthy of that work and that healing. That’s what I want to be able to tell anybody that this may be resonating with. This is an instantaneous gratification, but you are worthy of all of the time, effort, and energy that you will put into your own healing.
I resonate with this. There was an exercise I would give people and I still do from time to time. One of the key phrases in it is, I’ve never done anything to deserve the abuse I’ve received in my life. That’s in the recognition that a lot of us feel like, “I deserve this or it was my fault.” The way you’re saying it that you are worthy is like the brighter side of that. You do have value and worth. You’re worth the effort. It’s going to take you to heal and all of the good that will come from your work to heal. Thank you so much for being here. How do you prefer people connect with you?
Social media, I’m on Facebook and Instagram, Martha Kartaoui or you can find my book on Amazon, Glory: Going All In. I’m an open book, so if you find me on social media, I generally will respond and my contact information is in the back of the book as well.
Thank you so much for your time, your work, and the courage it takes to write a book like this.
Thank you so much. This has been my pleasure.
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Martha Glory Kartaoui is a resilient and courageous warrior who has transformed her life from being a cult survivor to becoming an influential voice and leader in the wellness industry. As the owner of PIC Wellness LLC, she is dedicated to helping others achieve their best overall holistic health, mind, body, and spirit. Martha is also an Amazon bestselling international author, a dynamic speaker, a life visionary, and a skilled healing workshop facilitator.
Her unique blend of professional training, personal experience, and spiritual wisdom enables her to walk alongside survivors and support profound warrior transformations. Her own healing journey and insights inspire others making her a beacon of hope. Martha is dedicated to assisting individuals seeking to reclaim their lives in order to thrive in their own journey toward self-discovery and divine fulfillment.
Important Links
- PIC Wellness LLC
- Glory: Going All In
- What My Bones Know
- Waking the Tiger
- Facebook – Martha Kartaoui
- Instagram – Martha Kartaoui
About Martha Glory Kartaoui
Martha Glory Kartaoui is a resilient and courageous warrior who has transformed her life from being a Cult Survivor to becoming an influential voice and leader in the wellness industry. As the owner of PIC Wellness, LLC, she is dedicated to helping others achieve their best overall holistic health Mind, Body and Spirit.
Martha is also an Amazon Best Selling International Author, a dynamic speaker, a life visionary, and a skilled healing workshop facilitator. Her unique blend of professional training, personal experience, and spiritual wisdom enables her to walk alongside survivors and support profound warrior transformations.
Her own healing journey and insights inspire, making her a beacon of hope and inspiration. Martha is dedicated to assisting individuals seeking to reclaim their lives in order to thrive in their own journey towards self-discovery and divine fulfillment.
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