Healing Out Loud

This October marks one year without full-time employment. Although I worked side hustles and received a part-time opportunity through Queen Esther Teas before my breast-cancer diagnosis, this season required me to depend on God in a way I never had before.

In this episode, I talk honestly about facing adversity, moving in with my daughter, experiencing depression, learning the humility of receiving help, and wondering how my needs would be met—yet never going without what I needed.

During the same season that appeared to be breaking me, God was developing the author, podcast host, public speaker, and woman who finally stopped shrinking. I published Healing Out Loud, started this podcast, completed breast-cancer surgery and radiation, and discovered that provision does not always look like a paycheck.

Guided by Philippians 4:19, this episode is a testimony that an uncomfortable season is not necessarily an unproductive one. Sometimes what feels like your life falling apart is God making room for purpose.

In this deeply personal episode of Healing Out Loud, I share the real stories behind my recovery—approaching 13 years clean from PCP, four years without marijuana, and nearly three years without alcohol.

I talk honestly about how my grandsons influenced my decisions to stop, how God sustained me when adversity came, and why recovery means more than simply giving up a substance. Recovery means facing your pain, telling yourself the truth, and choosing not to return to the things that once kept you bound.

My grandson even makes a brief, unplanned appearance during the episode—a beautiful reminder of one of the reasons I chose recovery.

Guided by 2 Corinthians 5:17, this episode is about becoming a new creation, staying committed when life gets difficult, and trusting that your past does not get the final word.

In this episode of Healing Out Loud, I celebrate God’s faithfulness after completing 20 radiation treatments, publishing my book, Healing Out Loud, and expanding the podcast to Apple Podcasts.

But harvest is not only about money, success, or material possessions. Sometimes the greatest harvest is becoming the person God called you to be. I share what it means to remain humble, grateful, and obedient while celebrating answered prayers—and why you don’t have to be completely healed before walking in your purpose.

Healing Out Loud is now available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover.

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In Episode 2 of Healing Out Loud, Isha Reed explores what it means to know who you are and remain true to yourself when people misunderstand, reject, criticize, or try to define you.

Isha shares lessons about correction versus condemnation, setting healthy boundaries, releasing the need for approval, and refusing to let another person’s hatred change your heart. She also reads a powerful passage from her newly published book, Healing Out Loud, about becoming fully present in her life after years of using relationships, substances, work, and distractions to escape herself.

This episode is a reminder that you are not your mistakes, your hardest season, or the worst thing someone has said about you. You can remain accountable, protect your peace, trust who God says you are, and continue becoming—without shrinking or becoming bitter.

In Episode 1 of Healing Out Loud, Isha Reed shares her honest experience with depression while continuing to work, serve in church, encourage others, and appear strong on the outside.

She explores what depression can really look like, the ways people sometimes use busyness, relationships, alcohol, and service to avoid facing their pain, and why true healing begins with honesty and accountability.

This episode is a reminder that you don’t have to be completely healed before you begin living, creating, serving, and walking in your purpose. You can still hurt and have purpose. You can tell the truth about where you are without being ashamed—because healing doesn’t have to be quiet.

Healing Out Loud is a space for real, courageous conversations about mental health, recovery, grief, relationships, sex, faith, God, mistakes, growth, and everything that happens when you decide your past does not get the final word.

Hosted by Isha Reed—a Peer Support Specialist, community advocate, founder of EPIC, and woman with lived experience—this podcast makes room for the truths people are often ashamed or afraid to say. Isha is still writing her story and still healing, too. She does not come with all the answers; she comes ready to tell the truth.

Because healing is not always quiet. Sometimes, healing gets loud.