Episode 3: Becoming WONDR – The Dissolution Years.
Part 3 of 6 Part Series.
In the third episode of the Becoming WONDR series, I step into the next iteration of my journey—the Dissolution Years. If the first iteration was about the building of a foundation, and the second was about watching it unravel, then this episode is about what happens in the space between—when the old ways no longer fit, but the new ones haven’t fully taken shape.
This chapter of my story is where things start to shift. Where I begin waking up inside my own life. Where I start to see the patterns I’ve been living—the search for external validation, the need for someone else to tell me who I am, the deep pull toward certainty even as life keeps pulling me into the unknown.
It’s about the in-between. The not-yet. The space where we know something has to change, but we’re not sure who we’ll be on the other side of it or even how to initiate the journey there.
Key Themes & Takeaways
✨ Searching for Solid Ground – With childhood structure gone and no clear path ahead, I kept looking outside of myself for direction, safety and belonging.
✨ The Weight of Expectation – Stepping into adulthood, career and relationship while still believing someone else held the answers to my life.
✨ The Patterns We Repeat – Falling into a relationship that mirrored the enmeshment of my childhood, where my sense of self was shaped by another person’s emotions, needs and approval.
✨ The Breaking Point – Moving across the world, stepping into uncertainty and realizing I had never truly trusted my own voice.
✨ The First Steps Toward Self-Trust – Meditation, embodiment and soul connection becoming the first glimpses of a new way of being—an emerging remembrance of me.
The Dissolution Years are my chrysalis phase, a time where everything feels uncertain—where the past is no longer holding me, but the future hasn’t fully revealed itself. It’s disorienting. Unsettling. And yet, something deeper is beginning to stir. A knowing. A pull toward something more. This is the chapter where I start to listen. To trust. To loosen my grip on what I thought life was supposed to be and step—however hesitantly—into what it might become.
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🌿 Referenced in this episode: Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
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