Unbreakable Resilience: A Journey Through Mental Health, Bullying, and Recovery with Caroline Sophia Skowron
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Unbreakable Resilience: A Journey Through Mental Health, Bullying, and Recovery with Caroline Sophia Skowron


🎙️ **Episode Title:** Unbreakable Resilience: A Journey Through Mental Health, Bullying, and Recovery with Caroline Sophia Skowron
Welcome back, beautiful souls, to another inspiring episode of *The Season of Self-Love*! Today, your host Nyomi Banks is joined by Caroline Sophia Skowron—author, mental health advocate, and beacon of hope. In this heart-to-heart conversation, Caroline opens up about her powerful story, from childhood bullying and a life-altering car accident to her journey with mental health and the insights shared in her book, *Unbreakable*. 
🌟 **What to Expect in This Episode:**
- Caroline’s early struggles with bullying, mental health, and discovering her learning disability
- The life-changing car accident that redefined her perspective on life
- Key lessons from *Unbreakable* on kindness, self-worth, and resilience
- How to cultivate mental strength and navigate the challenges of growing up, especially in today’s social media-driven world
Join us for an episode filled with raw honesty, empowering tips, and a shared mission to uplift others through vulnerability and self-love.
🔗 **Connect, Share, and Reflect:**
Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast, and don’t forget to check out Caroline’s book *Unbreakable*. Follow her on Instagram for more updates on her advocacy work, and join the conversation by sharing your own stories of resilience and healing.
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[00:01:02] Self Love podcast. I am your host Nyomi Banks and today we is going to dive into

[00:01:06] a deep journey of resilience and recovery with our incredible guest, Caroline

[00:01:11] Sophia Skowron. Caroline is not only an author and advocate but she's also a

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[00:03:31] All right well welcome back to the season of self love podcast I'm your host Nyomi Banks

[00:03:35] and we're talking about healing betrayal finding the strength

[00:03:39] in diversity and joining us is Carolyn Sophia Scoron.

[00:03:43] Carol is not only an author but also I said she's an advocate and also a beacon of hope.

[00:03:49] Today she is to discuss her book Unbreakable Caroline it is such an honor to have you here

[00:03:56] with us how are you? Thank you thanks for having me this is awesome I'm happy to be here.

[00:04:02] Thank you thank you I know we was having like a little little stuff before we're both of our

[00:04:07] eyes but I'm so sure we are able to push through love technology man I swear it always loves to go

[00:04:14] out great when I need it. All right my listeners so before we start let's take a moment to center

[00:04:21] ourselves with a brief meditation guided meditation where we can find a comfortable

[00:04:25] position wherever you are and close your eyes and join us. Let's take a deep breath together

[00:04:36] inhale slowly filling your lungs with fresh air now hold it for me now exhale any tension that you

[00:04:47] might be hearing. Now as you continue to breathe deeply I want you to visualize a gentle wave washing

[00:04:55] over you but each wave bringing calm and clarity with each breath out I want you to let go of

[00:05:07] fear I want you to let go of any doubt and I want you to remind yourself that you are strong

[00:05:17] that you are capable and that you are not alone in this journey

[00:05:25] now I want you to take one more deeper then

[00:05:32] in a held and when you are ready gently open your eyes and return to the present

[00:05:40] and be refreshed and ready to engage. All right well thank you for joining us if you

[00:05:51] knew here to the Season of Sevella podcast it's something that we do every day Monday through

[00:05:55] Friday where we you know we do a nice little grounding center right before we get into

[00:06:00] the topic of hand all right and again thank you uh Carolyn for joining us so let's start

[00:06:06] from the beginning can you tell us about your early experiences with mental health

[00:06:10] and how that set the stage for your advocacy work? Yeah I mean I really can say that you know it all

[00:06:18] goes back to being bullied when I was in third grade I got a death threat and I didn't realize

[00:06:23] at the time that it kind of was what started to have myself doubt myself down for occasion why

[00:06:29] don't people like me why don't I belong the older I got and when I got into high school

[00:06:33] with anxiety and the depression got so much worse and I struggled a lot with my mental health

[00:06:40] it wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I found out that I actually had a learning

[00:06:45] disability called nonverbal which is you're highly verbal but you struggle with like

[00:06:49] conceptual scales and stuff like that so it was kind of why my anxiety and depression

[00:06:55] was amplified I just didn't know it at the time but it only kind of got worse from there and

[00:07:01] that's really how it started. Wow that's incredible powerful moving from those challenges how did

[00:07:10] you find the strength to redefine your narrative and what lessons did you enable in your book but

[00:07:16] also I got a question is during that time when you realize about the about your diagnosis um no answer

[00:07:25] my first question first. Which one? I'm like wait because I want to know some more but let's

[00:07:32] do that first like you know from your challenges how did you find the strength to redefine your

[00:07:36] narrative? Yeah I really think that it all kind of started with a life learning car accident

[00:07:41] March 2020 I was lucky to be alive I could have gone flying through the windshield

[00:07:46] I grabbed my seatbelt seconds for the accident it was a hit and run the car was totaled it was

[00:07:51] a blessing that everyone was still alive and after that was kind of when I realized

[00:07:57] and I'm a Christian so for me it was God giving me my second chance at life

[00:08:02] and I knew that I wasn't going to take that lightly and that's kind of where the whole okay

[00:08:08] we're lucky to be alive we're grateful we have our amazing family and friends and that's kind of how

[00:08:14] the book started. Okay now what lessons like if they go to the book what lessons have you embedded

[00:08:20] within the book unbreakable? You know I think a big lesson from the book and something that I

[00:08:26] do hope people take away is that you really have to be careful with how you treat people

[00:08:32] because you might not think that your words are affecting them but words can hurt and

[00:08:38] saying mean things to each other is not the answer and I just really hope that people can

[00:08:44] understand that their words have a huge impact and I really hope that people can see that

[00:08:50] you have to be kind to people because you don't know what they're facing.

[00:08:53] So that's like a really big thing because bullying is like the beginning of the book but

[00:08:58] I really want that to be a lesson that people take away because it's so true like words really

[00:09:03] like matter how you say them and I mean we don't always say the same thing or the right thing and

[00:09:09] like sometimes I literally don't even speak English but like we all try our best every day

[00:09:15] and I think that everyone should be okay and acknowledged for that and not ever get torn

[00:09:21] down or anything like that. So really it is about kindness and kind of like you know

[00:09:26] not bullying people I think that's like a really big thing because a lot of people

[00:09:31] don't know and don't advocate for it and I think we just need to be more aware.

[00:09:36] Yeah um yeah that one I want to go back to non-verbal the non-verbal that right there

[00:09:43] for you what does that look like for us that don't know what it is or what because honestly this

[00:09:48] is the first time that I've ever heard of it what does that look like what does it sound like?

[00:09:53] Yes so when I first found out I was there confused as well but basically what it is is like you struggle

[00:09:59] which I struggled a lot with math in sciences um I really struggled with spatial awareness which

[00:10:07] some of my best friends explains my parallel parking really that explains that um and also to

[00:10:14] just kind of like just being like aware of like where I am spatially is something that like

[00:10:20] I've had to kind of learn um because I do struggle with seeing things differently with that but the

[00:10:27] biggest thing that non-verbal actually has has affected me with and something that I didn't

[00:10:32] realize at the time but so kids with non-verbal tend to internalize a lot more than most people.

[00:10:38] So say you're in a breakup and say that some person's going to get over in a month

[00:10:43] it might take you three or four months because it's just like you let go in a different way

[00:10:49] so you really do struggle when people come in and out of your life because for me at least

[00:10:54] I internalized everything every interaction everything like that and you know thought that if I was

[00:11:01] you know I thought I wasn't good enough uh so that was something it really started to affect me

[00:11:05] once I like actually understood it and it's just kind of something that I really try to be

[00:11:12] as aware about as I can be now but it is something that still affects me daily I'm not

[00:11:17] gonna lie like it's it's something I have to kind of balance with my mind and mindfulness to really

[00:11:22] kind of make sure that I'm not going down a rabbit hole like I used to. Right so how would how would

[00:11:27] one know how would one be diagnosed like what are the symptoms of of that because you know when

[00:11:32] you hear non-verbal you think like someone is just not talking yeah right and like for better

[00:11:38] so what what are the symptoms so if anyone is out there that's listening right now and have a

[00:11:43] young child and going through these difficulties that they might can you know go to their doctor and

[00:11:49] give them that yeah well I'm not a doctor but from what I've experienced personally I would say

[00:11:56] really struggling with conceptual skills and school like if you struggle a lot with like

[00:12:01] math or science or like for me it was also I had like I had so many tutors and yet I still

[00:12:09] was not doing well and if you're working so hard and your results are not adding up that was kind

[00:12:16] of when my parents were like wait a second this isn't making sense so that is one when I did go get

[00:12:21] a neuropsych evaluation test but you know I think it's up to the doctor to see like what exactly

[00:12:27] each individual person needs. Right now for you now for that for that what will be

[00:12:34] a plan for that for you how were you able to maintain or manage your non-verbal?

[00:12:45] I think it's kind of something that you learn every day I think you know this is something

[00:12:50] I live with and it's something that I used to feel was like was me but it's not my identity it's

[00:12:57] just a part of me but you know kids with non-verbal actually have some strengths that others

[00:13:03] people don't and I found that out through writing I found that out through I also love singing and

[00:13:08] songwriting and I love writing songs and coming up with stuff like creativity is a lot more what

[00:13:13] I'm good at and so I realized that you know what maybe this actually is a strength and maybe

[00:13:19] this is my superpower. That's beautiful I like that you turned that around so let me ask you this

[00:13:25] as in terms of advocacy how do you approach raising awareness and what impact do you hope

[00:13:32] to making these communities especially among the youth? Well I'm very very passionate about

[00:13:39] anti-bullying so that we do have less people taking their lives um so I would say really even if I can

[00:13:45] help one kid or one person that's all I want to do I mean I want to do this with my life I want

[00:13:51] to you know be able to have a platform to spread awareness and help people understand like

[00:13:54] it's okay not to be okay and like you're not alone there's so many people going through similar

[00:14:00] things to you and it's just sometimes really easy to lose sight of that which I tended to do that a

[00:14:07] lot which is really kind of why I started with my anxiety and depression and I just you know

[00:14:13] really want these kids to know like it's for like that 16 year old me I'm like I want that kid

[00:14:19] to know they are so much more than they think they are right now and they have so much life ahead

[00:14:25] of them and 16 year old Carol does not need to compare herself to every other girl because comparing

[00:14:32] is the thief of joy and I've learned you know you can't do that either and so really kind of spreading

[00:14:38] awareness too of like be yourself be who you are you don't have to fit the mold you know no one

[00:14:43] does and no one is supposed to but yet society has made it seem like we have to and that's where

[00:14:49] I really want to help make a difference that's great so let me ask you this because at 16 years

[00:14:55] old my 16 years old I didn't have social media this is my question how do you feel about social media

[00:15:02] do you think there should be an age limit on when parents should allow their children it's just

[00:15:08] you know not you saying yeah but I just wanted to hear your input when children should be allowed

[00:15:15] on the social media I'll be honest with you I don't like social media because I think we have just

[00:15:23] literally taken it downhill but I am on it so that I can hopefully promote like kindness and awareness

[00:15:29] and stuff because when I was in high school that was on Twitter Instagram like all of those things

[00:15:33] were first coming out so like I saw you know the Friday night plans I wasn't invited to on

[00:15:38] Twitter and I saw the pictures of the parties I wasn't invited to on the weekends on Instagram

[00:15:43] so like it was just the start of that I was not cool in high school obviously but I like I really

[00:15:51] yeah I did struggle a lot with it just kind of finding my place and stuff like that but

[00:15:56] I will say like as a parent I'm not a parent yet but I feel like kids especially because of

[00:16:04] seeing some of my best friends kids grow up I feel like kids definitely need to be at a

[00:16:08] certain age before they get even a phone because something like having these kids tell you they're

[00:16:15] not good enough and not worthy it breaks your heart I remember I went to one of my best friend's

[00:16:21] daughter's party for her birthday and I said oh my gosh you look beautiful and she was like no I

[00:16:26] don't I'm ugly I was like you're seven years old and you already think that about yourself

[00:16:31] and it broke my heart like I was like we have to do something about this this isn't okay

[00:16:39] she should be living her life and and she doesn't even have a phone no but she sometimes goes on

[00:16:43] her moms but I'm like it's just like these kids are growing up in that sense of like having

[00:16:47] phones at like the age of like six like it's just honestly I'm not judging any parents they

[00:16:53] can do what they think is best for their kids I think that's really kind of what it comes

[00:16:57] down to but I just think personally social media is destroying this next generation of kids

[00:17:02] and social media is the reason why we are having such a decrease in human interaction

[00:17:08] and in vulnerability yeah yeah yeah I'm listening to when I when I look at you I want to go and

[00:17:16] give you a hug let me tell you why in 2020 you said that you was in a car accident

[00:17:23] and kind of like kind of just change your whole perspective on things um in anyone else anybody

[00:17:29] else in this world if that happened it would have broke down especially being diagnosed with

[00:17:35] with non-verbal taking it in I'm just so glad that you looked at it from a different perspective

[00:17:41] especially during that time with 2020 where we were all isolated

[00:17:45] mm-hmm so if anything and I'm just speaking into you right now if anything this show your strength

[00:17:53] you know because a lot of us a lot of times when people are isolated and not able to be

[00:17:59] you know connected to people or be out in the world because at that moment at that time

[00:18:03] we didn't know what was going on this is something that never happened that the

[00:18:06] whole entire world being shut down but for you to actually through your trauma through your

[00:18:12] what you went through that you was able to see a light you were actually able to see

[00:18:18] something to do for someone else but also to be able to go through your own healing process as well

[00:18:23] and so I'm going to say this I commend you for that thank you yeah I truly do because even in

[00:18:30] that moment in time and this thing we're going to go and talk about this month series that we

[00:18:36] talking about and that's a healing beyond betrayal through you being bullied from

[00:18:40] from with third grade until probably going into high school for you probably longer

[00:18:47] okay probably longer I mean I don't know my first in your college um I almost did try to take my

[00:18:54] life so that's kind of why the correlation of wanting to make a difference because I realized

[00:19:00] I had two chances at almost dying once by choice and once literally just praying to make it out of

[00:19:06] life and I knew that wasn't a coincidence and so that's kind of when my healing process did start

[00:19:10] because I was like I'm so blessed to be alive like I had this new appreciation for life that I didn't

[00:19:15] even know I could have right so so actually this because that is something that's that's that's

[00:19:21] deep um that's deep I just take it take a quick breath and it's not a judgment but because I

[00:19:29] feel you right now I feel you and I feel everything that's happening tell my listeners how did you get

[00:19:36] through that now like what was like when you say okay Carolyn I want to live why do I want to live

[00:19:45] you know what do I how do I get through this every day you understand what I'm saying

[00:19:50] yeah I mean I it I think it literally all goes back to knowing your self-worth and knowing

[00:19:58] that you have a purpose you have a reason for being here everyone has a story that they can tell

[00:20:04] because everyone should be able to use their voice and for so long I was you know silently

[00:20:10] struggling but I realized that by using my voice I could impact help other kids who are

[00:20:15] struggling so my hope is that by the kids who are struggling see me and be like wait a second I

[00:20:20] can be open about this and just like create a community of people coming together and realizing

[00:20:24] that like we can get through this together and like life doesn't have to be so like you know

[00:20:29] trying to like hurt each other because I just I feel like so much of like is especially in high school

[00:20:35] and you know college and stuff it's like you're in this weird situation of like okay like where

[00:20:40] who am I who am I and like why do I belong you know and you're not thinking like that when

[00:20:47] you're a 15 I mean I was not thinking like that when I was 15 but I think the biggest thing

[00:20:51] that I always say is I say find a passion that makes you happy and they always go to something

[00:21:00] and one person was like art and I was like okay well I'm not a therapist but like why don't you cope

[00:21:06] with that why don't you do that why don't you try to do that and really kind of just like

[00:21:10] find healthy coping mechanisms I think that's the key to getting through life is coping coping

[00:21:16] healthy coping see I totally sometimes can't talk like the healthy coping and just kind of

[00:21:21] realizing that like there are ways to get through life and getting a strong support system is so

[00:21:27] essential and that is something I believe everyone deserves and that is exactly why I wrote

[00:21:33] Unbreakable because I want to build a community I want to build a sense of hey you're having

[00:21:39] a bad day let's talk about it or make social media great you know like make make make it

[00:21:45] positive things that are going to like actually help people and I think like that's the biggest thing

[00:21:50] I always say and you know more than that too I just say it was like there's so much more for you

[00:21:56] and you have to believe I was like I don't care what you believe in find something to believe

[00:22:02] in because I feel like once I started to not to get like you know but I am Christian and

[00:22:07] once I started to really kind of follow my faith I kind of noticed a difference in my life and I'm

[00:22:12] like so for you if it's like gods or or higher power whatever it is find something to believe in

[00:22:18] because that is what is going to keep you going and faith is everything all right so let me ask you

[00:22:26] this because I'm very spiritual I'm about God and understand exactly what the connection with

[00:22:32] and I heard that you're a Christian I was Christian baptizing all that

[00:22:39] and this is going to be a question have you found faith in yourself? Yes

[00:22:45] and I think I found faith in myself through God and through believing that in my support system

[00:22:51] like picking me back up when I was down and you know realizing how amazing life can be when

[00:22:57] you have your people and you have this like and you're actually happy and that's something I dreamed

[00:23:03] of I dreamed of being happy I remember I was so depressed in college and like now like without any

[00:23:09] outside force I'm just happy and I'm very like you know every day I'm still learning but I'm really

[00:23:15] trying to love myself as much as I can every day and definitely self-care as well. I love this

[00:23:21] for you I do I love this for you because I see you coming out that coming out the darkness

[00:23:26] into the light and it looks good it looks good it do it looks good and I'm like I don't even know if

[00:23:34] I want to ask this question but I have to because we this is what the show is about um the healing

[00:23:42] beyond betrayal this is a whole series of this month and um I want to kind of just come on

[00:23:50] themed with this for a moment can you discuss how yourself betrayed played because so let me

[00:23:57] let me come back let me come back through the time you were in third grade going into your

[00:24:08] college in adulthood has there ever been a moment that you felt betrayed from others well I know

[00:24:17] you have from others and from yourself for sure I think I feel like there's always a moment where

[00:24:26] there's always something in life that you're going to do and you're like

[00:24:31] I uh I think that betrayal yourself all goes back to like loving yourself it's a fine line of like

[00:24:38] when you hate yourself and you want to betray yourself which I totally did by like doing

[00:24:43] unhealthy coping which I had to learn healthy coping which made my life so much better

[00:24:49] but I would really say it like it's like a it's like betrayal to self love that's

[00:24:54] kind of how I see it and um once because when you betray yourself you're not to carry yourself

[00:24:59] when you betray yourself you're hurting yourself you're not in a good place and I think that when

[00:25:04] you learn to kind of like hey I am awesome I am cool I do deserve someone who worships the ground

[00:25:10] I walk on like not even in a cocky way but it's just like learning how like to know your worth

[00:25:15] and know that by loving yourself other people will see that you love yourself and they'll be

[00:25:23] all like about to just like spreading positive energy and like being nice to everyone because

[00:25:28] you just don't know what someone else is going through right right you are so true you know

[00:25:33] earlier earlier than you talked about using our words I said impeccable but using you know great

[00:25:39] words there's a book and I'm going I don't know if you read it before it's called The Four

[00:25:43] Agreements by Miguel Ruiz it's an amazing book you should read it it has four agreements the

[00:25:49] first agreement is use our words impeccable because as you say words are powerful words are magic

[00:25:57] when I first read that book it kind of changed my whole perspective of even my relationships with

[00:26:02] people even when my relationships with people I believe the second one is don't take it personal

[00:26:08] or it's not about you want to like that yeah yeah you know a lot of times we make up stories in

[00:26:14] our head you know um where somebody might think about us you know and stuff like that and it

[00:26:20] could be further from the truth but we have already talked ourselves into that I was the queen of that

[00:26:25] yeah literally making up these little stories in my head of like so this person really hates you

[00:26:32] because they looked at you this way and all seven then you just go down to like this whole rabbit hole

[00:26:36] yeah but it's an amazing book and just that you were seeing that it just kind of like

[00:26:40] ting ting ting and I said okay I'll make sure that I'm going to answer that before we get off of you

[00:26:44] about that and actually say go go check that book out it's a really good book and it might

[00:26:49] what is it all right it was called it's called The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz are you

[00:27:01] Izzy and it's an amazing book it's an amazing book it really is and then once you read it

[00:27:11] hit me up and say yeah I don't know it's good I will I'll tell you how I like it I'll have to

[00:27:17] Amazon it though because if I go to Barnes & Noble I might actually end up with more books than I need

[00:27:22] which is so funny because I used to hate Barnes & Noble and I hated reading and now like I love it

[00:27:28] yeah I think it'll be I think that book alone would be very great because then it might be

[00:27:33] you got an unbreakable and then it might go on to another series and another I'm just

[00:27:38] speaking to you baby there's going on and on and on because with your advocacy especially

[00:27:43] talking to you I think it could be amazing truly really could be very amazing I mean you have a

[00:27:51] lot of people that go through a lot of the kids especially right now that go through those

[00:27:54] those teenage years from teenage will actually pre-teen to teenage until adulthood and don't

[00:28:01] know how to trans um transition to each one of those times because even you know you can

[00:28:07] have a friend that you have in four or five six grade soon as you go to middle school there's a whole

[00:28:14] new environment of people and that friendship that you had early on is no longer there so what do you

[00:28:21] do with it you understand what I'm saying yeah you're definitely going through you've been on

[00:28:27] the end of being believed so now you can use some of those tools that got you through

[00:28:35] to teach the other children or the other teenagers on how to get through yeah it's definitely that's

[00:28:44] the biggest thing though too is like and that's also why unbreakable is that word means a lot to me

[00:28:50] because not only did I realize that I was unbreakable but I feel like we all can be unbreakable

[00:28:55] because life throws things at you day in and day out and you'll get knocked down and people

[00:29:01] will betray you and hurt you and all the but good will happen too but through all of it you're not

[00:29:06] going to break because you're unbreakable and your life is unbreakable and that's how I try to see

[00:29:11] mine now because I'm like you know what I'm unbreakable if someone wants to betray me fine

[00:29:16] I'm unbreakable like all move on you know so I think it's just kind of knowing like something

[00:29:22] to really follow and be like wait a second like this is how I should be living my life but

[00:29:26] also when you're a kid your brain's not fully developed so you're not thinking like that but I

[00:29:31] think that you know really knowing that unbreakable is more than just a book it's more than just a

[00:29:37] brand it's a word that I just think everyone needs to tap into because we all can make it through if

[00:29:46] we just keep going and stay resilient because resilience only makes you stronger and you never

[00:29:52] know how much you could help someone just by even speaking your truth yes yes beautiful

[00:30:00] thank you beautiful beautiful all right so look that was it it was simple okay yeah that was

[00:30:09] beautiful um well as we wrap up I I love our listeners to reflect on their journeys but if

[00:30:15] you have any questions or stories that you'd like to share please reach out through social media

[00:30:19] channels in caroline is there anything any advice anything else I want to give your handles

[00:30:27] or what it can find a book at whatever yeah um so my website's actually carolinsofia.com and it's

[00:30:35] with p-h-i-a um and you can get the book on there and you can look at um like other things

[00:30:43] for like speaking engagements because I'm a speaker as well and really just anything like that or

[00:30:48] you can also go to my instagram which is carolin.scowrin and yeah I'm pretty sure that's it and I have

[00:30:55] my link tree there so I like my tiktok and all that stuff there because tiktok also too if you are

[00:31:00] in high school watch the tiktok series that I have is so high school yes I love Taylor Swift

[00:31:05] but I called this series so high school because I wanted to make a series that's really gonna

[00:31:10] help high schoolers so definitely check it out if you're in high school I love high school

[00:31:17] how did my airpods just fall out of her ear I'm really having a beautiful day

[00:31:23] I love that that's so high school you know actually I would love to bring you back on

[00:31:27] to speak on that particularly on on that series right there sure I think it's much needed it

[00:31:33] truly is much needed for that but again thank you caroline yeah thank you for your help and

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