Recently, Bre Haizlip (“Dr. Bre”) gave an end of year motivational Zoom talk to the moms of The Local Moms Network. We all loved her down-to-earth advice and her commit to helping woman. For this week’s Meet a Mom interview, we spoke to Dr. Bre about her counseling and teaching career, her activism, some of her favorite mantras, and more.
Can you please share a bit about yourself?
My name is Dr. Bre and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). I specialize in individual and organizational evolution! I’m a sage-burning, hip-hop loving, daily-meditating, Light-seeking, science-savvy teacher and healer at the very core of who I am! I know that the highest purpose of my life is to share enlightened ideas that catalyze healing. I’ve come to understand and believe that only social justice is social healing. We all must have an opportunity to heal from our trauma and rewrite the stories that limit our well-being and worthiness.
I am originally from outside of Pittsburgh, PA and have lived all over the US and also in the United Arab Emirates, in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. I currently live outside of Seattle, WA with my partner of 13 years and our 3 daughters. Raised by a solo-parent (my Momma), I am a first-generation college student and the first 1st in my family to become a doctor. I didn’t know at the time that achieving such a feat would land me among the less than 2% of African American/ Black female university professors in the United States. I’ve come to understand that this tremendous honor is a privilege that comes with the honor of responsibility. Since completing my PhD in 2009, I have become an award-winning psychology professor, therapist, and equity & inclusion (EI) professional, serving those historically underrepresented in higher education and in corporate executive culture.
As an EI consultant, professor, researcher and activist, I have successfully led antidiscrimination efforts for more than 55 universities, non-profits, corporations, schools, and community-based organizations, both nationally and internationally. As an author and researcher, I have delivered over 150 trainings, talks, research articles and workshops all over the world.
What is your biggest mantras that you love to share?
My life is truly about the pursuit of what I call, self-sovereignty. I believe in the only absolute truth, which I call the Law of Self-Sovereignty, which is my guiding mantra, “Anything is possible. At any time. No matter what.” It is the only truth that remains true regardless of conditions.
“You cannot have what you are not willing to become -and you cannot give what you are not.” This mantra guides every part of my life and reminds me that I am not a human being having a spiritual experience; instead, I am a spirit being, having a human experience. I am and we are all energy and the life we experience is created by how we experience our energy in motion (or emotions). To have Love, I be Love. To have a friend, I must be a friend. To have wealth, I must become the feeling of wealth.
Can you share a bit about your podcast?
We can’t heal through what we’re too afraid to feel through. My podcast, “Show-Up & Feel Through”is about taking time to pause for presence, pursue INNERstanding and build self-sovereignty! Here, we talk about how to Show Up for life’s most difficult emotions – by Feeling Through life’s most difficult questions. This is all about giving you access to the introspective tools and skills that therapists and psychologists use to begin or catalyze your own healing journey.