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In this deeply grounding and inspiring conversation, Shabana sits down with her friend Katja Hydock to explore identity, healing, motherhood, Human Design, and the beauty of becoming. Katja shares her journey through childhood emotional challenges, therapy from a young age, blended family life, and how learning to trust her body and intuition transformed the way she moves through the world.

This episode is a reminder that life’s challenges are not meant to break us—they are meant to shape us. Through honest storytelling and soulful reflection, this conversation invites listeners to slow down, release the pressure to “have it all figured out,” and trust the unfolding.

✨ Gems in this Episode:

• How childhood experiences shape identity and self-worth
• The power of therapy, nervous system regulation, and emotional awareness
• Navigating blended family life and motherhood with grace
• Learning to trust your body and intuition
• Human Design as a tool for self-understanding and alignment
• Releasing hustle, pressure, and the need to control the “how”
• The bridge analogy: letting go of old identities and stepping into who you’re becoming
• Why presence is the greatest gift we can give our children
• Wisdom for bonus moms and women holding complex family dynamics

🌉 Key Takeaways

• Life isn’t happening to you—it’s happening for you
• You don’t need to rush your healing or your becoming
• Trust, ease, and presence create more alignment than force ever could
• The power you’re seeking has always been within you
• You are allowed to release what no longer serves and choose a new identity

🎧 About the Guest: Katja Hydock

Katja Hydock is a loving mother, supporting wife, a podcast host, and guide for women seeking deeper self-trust, alignment, and embodied wisdom. Drawing from lived experience, therapy, Human Design, and intuitive practices, Katja helps women reconnect to who they truly are beneath conditioning and expectations.

Podcast: If I Had Just Learned This Instagram: @katja.hydock

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