Jackie Faber: Inside My Journey

Listener note: This episode discusses abuse, trauma identity, and victim consciousness. Please listen at your own pace.This episode explores a difficult and nuanced insight: how victim consciousness can quietly turn into self-righteous narcissism — even within healing spaces.

Before diving in, I want to be clear: this conversation is not about denying abuse, minimizing harm, or blaming victims. Abuse is real. Harm is real. And every stage of healing is valid.

In this episode, I share a lived experience that revealed how trauma identity, threat detection, and black-and-white thinking can subtly shape perception — and how moral superiority can emerge as a survival strategy when safety is still outsourced.

We explore themes such as impact versus intent, projection, self-validation, narcissism as a survival state, and the challenge of holding duality without collapsing into judgment.

This is not an easy episode — and it isn’t meant to be. It’s an invitation to reflect on where identity may still be organized around victimhood, and what becomes possible when self-authorship and inner validation begin to take root.

If this episode feels activating, you’re not wrong and you’re not behind. Triggers often point to edges that are ready to be explored — when and if you choose.

Thanks for listening.

Explore my work: www.findingauthenticity.ca

I almost didn’t record this.

Not because I didn’t have the outline or the plan — but because starting felt vulnerable in a way I couldn’t logic my way out of.

In this first episode, I share why beginning this podcast was difficult, what finally moved me to press record, and the deeper purpose behind this series.

This podcast explores healing, trauma, nervous system regulation, personal sovereignty, and spiritual alignment — not as concepts, but as lived experience.

Season 1 follows my journey of moving beyond trauma identity, reclaiming self-authorship, understanding energy and perception, and learning how to stop performing healing in order to start living in alignment.

This isn’t a polished teaching or a promise of answers.
It’s the beginning of a walk — grounded in presence, honesty, and embodiment.

Thanks for being here at the beginning.

Learn more about my work at: www.findingauthenticity.ca