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In this episode, Shonda shares the real story of how she went from crying on her living room floor after yet another situationship crash-and-burn… to meeting her husband just a few months later.

You’ll hear exactly what she shifted to go from being the only single one in her friend group to finding real love. If you’ve ever wondered, “Is it ever going to happen for me?”, this one will give you hope and a new way to see your love life.

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What do you do when the darkness feels like it's seeping into everything—your energy, your motivation, your sense of self?

Jenny shares the moment she realized she'd been disappearing into winter, and the surprisingly simple sensory practice that brought her back to presence.

No toxic positivity, no "just push through it"—just an honest look at how to actually inhabit the dark months instead of just surviving them.

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When Delight's daughter’s addiction shattered her world, she found herself alone with grief that had nowhere to go.

In that silence, Delight turned to art, not to fix the pain, but to survive it. What began as heartbreak slowly became a lifeline, and eventually, a special kind of freedom.

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In this episode, SEO copywriter and mom Alex Theordor shares her raw, unpolished story of feeling stuck in comparison—watching other moms and entrepreneurs "have it all" while she was wading through her own messy life.

Discover how she tapped into a new surprising practice to shift her focus from external success metrics to internal progress, proving you don't have to wait to feel ready or perfect before you move.

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When Tara started getting healthy, she thought the hardest part was behind her, but healing turned out to be lonelier than being sick.

Tara realized the version of herself that put everyone else’s needs above her own was part of what made her unwell in the first place. Learning to set boundaries and, in some cases, to love and let go, became an important part of Tara's healing journey.

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Simona Rinfreschi shares her raw and honest journey from nearly losing her life in childbirth and battling postpartum despair to discovering the power of calm and self-compassion in parenting. \

Through her story of survival, growth, and learning, she reminds parents that children respond more to our emotions than our words, and that our presence is enough.

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In the midst of political and workplace changes, this working mom found herself consumed by anger and resentment that was poisoning every aspect of her life.

Instead of pushing away her difficult emotions, she allowed herself to fully feel them while making small, consistent choices to care for herself - trading emotional eating for intentional nourishment and choosing movement over staying stuck in bitterness.

By shifting her focus from fighting what she couldn't control to reclaiming agency over her daily responses and self-care, she transformed her experience of the same challenging circumstances entirely.

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How OCD derailed my business and what I did to move through it - rather than shutting my business down.

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Julian gets real about the weight of financial shame and how it nearly crushed her when she and her husband couldn’t cover both the mortgage and groceries.

She shares the raw moment of applying for food stamps despite having a degree in economics—and what she did from that moment on. Tune in to hear her story and why shame doesn’t get the final say in your money journey.

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What happens when a chronic people pleaser finally snaps? In this raw story of rage and reclamation, Kaisa shares how creating an alter ego - “the bitch” - helped her set boundaries, walk away from toxicity, and begin the slow return to her creativity and self-worth.

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