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Why do we chase love, success, belonging, or recognition—and still feel as though we are never quite enough?

In this deeply personal conversation, I share how the need to feel chosen shaped my marriage and what I discovered when I finally stopped looking to another person’s presence to confirm my worth.

Together, we explore how childhood emotional wounds can follow us into our adult relationships, why achievements and external validation never fully satisfy the ache within us, and what begins to change when we stop chasing and choose ourselves instead.

Stopping the chase does not mean giving up on love, connection, or the life we desire. It means remembering that none of those things were ever meant to prove our worth.

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What happens when healing changes you so deeply that the places and relationships that once felt familiar no longer feel like home?

In this episode of Dear Rising Soul, we explore the loneliness that can come with healing, personal growth, setting boundaries, and outgrowing old relationship dynamics. I share my own experience of becoming the “lone wolf,” the difference between loneliness and solitude, and why no longer feeling like you belong may be part of finding your way back to yourself.

If you are questioning where you belong after healing, this conversation is for you.

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Remember. Rise. Heal.

With much love,

Naomi 🤍

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Have you ever stopped to wonder where that voice actually came from?

In this episode, I'm getting personal about the inner critic, where it's really born, how it takes root, and why it sounds so much like you that you never thought to question it.

Because the voice that has been narrating your life may not be yours at all.

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Sometimes the people who loved you in your wound can't quite recognize you in your healing. And the distance that follows isn't a betrayal. It's growth.

In this episode, we explore what it really means to outgrow the people you love. Not cutting people off, not labeling anyone toxic, but understanding why healing changes our relationships, and how to tell the difference between distance that comes from a healed place and distance that comes from an open wound.

We talk about why we meet people at the wound we're in, the rising culture of cutting people off and what it gets wrong, the pressure to stay bound to family no matter the cost, and how releasing someone with love is different from punishing them with distance.

If you've ever felt guilty for growing, or grieved a relationship that simply ran its course, this one is for you.

Self first is not selfish. It is self-honoring.

With much love, dear soul.

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What if anxiety isn't something happening to you, but something trying to tell you something?

In this episode, Naomi gets deeply personal about her own journey with anxiety. From a childhood spent scanning for danger, to a week-long panic attack in her early twenties, to a decade of medication that treated the symptom but never the wound.

This episode explores what anxiety actually is, why it lives in the body, why the nervous system reaches for the familiar even when familiar is painful, and what it actually takes to close the gap between anxiety that visits and anxiety that runs your life.

If you have ever felt like you were on a ride you hated and couldn't get off, this episode is for you.

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Healing without an apology starts with understanding why the apology was never going to be enough. In this episode we go deep into why we keep waiting, what we are really looking for, and what it actually takes to find peace without the closure we were never given.

Whether you are waiting for an apology that never came, or holding one that arrived but changed nothing — this conversation is for you.

Topics covered:

• Why the apology couldn't return what was taken
• The difference between a genuine apology and compliance dressed as resolution
• What we are really waiting for underneath the words
• A daily cord-cutting energy practice to reclaim your peace

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Healing the father wound starts with understanding how it shaped you. In this episode we explore what the father wound really is, how it lives in the body, and what reclamation actually looks like.

My own story. The fear and the longing. The voice I carried into adulthood without knowing it. And what healing looked like on the other side.

If you're working through childhood wounds, conditional love, or patterns you can't seem to shake — this conversation is for you.

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Remember. Rise. Heal.

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What if the pain you’ve carried for years has a name?

In this deeply personal episode, I explore the mother wound and the lasting impact of growing up without the emotional safety, tenderness, validation, or connection every child deserves.

Together, we explore how this wound follows us into adulthood through relationships, self-worth, people-pleasing, anxiety, abandonment wounds, and the nervous system — and what it means to begin healing the inner child and breaking generational cycles.

If you’ve ever felt unseen, emotionally alone, or like you were always reaching for love that stayed just out of reach, this episode is for you.

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With much love,
Naomi 🤍

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Before the podcast, before the words, before any of this, there was a little girl lying in bed at night with an invisible mic in her hand, speaking to souls she hoped would feel less alone.

In this deeply personal episode, Naomi Carr shares the story behind Dear Rising Soul, the loneliness that shaped her childhood, and the quiet calling that followed her long before she understood what it meant.

This is a conversation about purpose, healing, imagination, belonging, and the gifts we carry long before the world tells us they matter.

If you’ve ever felt different, too sensitive, or too dream-filled for the world around you, this episode is for you.

You can also download my free A Guided Return to Unconditional Self-Love bundle here:
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With much love,
Naomi 🤍

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We tell ourselves we’re afraid of failing, but that’s not the whole truth.

In this episode, we explore the deeper fear that keeps us from showing up. The fear of being truly seen. The fear of being human in front of others, of being judged, misunderstood, or found not enough.

You’ll be invited to look at what it’s really costing you to stay hidden, and what begins to shift when you give yourself permission to show up exactly as you are. Not when you’re perfect. Not when you’re ready. But in your full, imperfect humanness.

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