Who you became wasn’t a mistake—it was survival.

In this grounding episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, Celeste explores how identity is shaped long before we’re conscious of it—through family roles, gender expectations, praise, punishment, and the quiet rules we learned about love, safety, and belonging.

This episode is not about fixing yourself.
 It’s about understanding why you became who you became—and deciding what no longer belongs.

We talk about:

• How early conditioning shapes identity and self-worth
• The “good girl,” achiever, caretaker, and chameleon survival roles
• Why people-pleasing and overperforming feel like safety
• Mistaking survival strategies for personality
• What it means to unlearn without blaming yourself
• How reclamation is courage—not rebellion

If you’ve ever wondered why you keep shrinking, adapting, or performing to be accepted—this episode will help you separate survival from self and begin coming home to who you actually are.

✨ You’re not becoming selfish. You’re becoming honest.

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In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I’m joined by Courtney Somma, a holistic health practitioner who lived for years with chronic migraines, IBS, inflammation, and daily pain while raising young children and holding a full life together from the outside. Like so many women, she was told her symptoms were normal, manageable, or something she’d simply have to accept. And for a long time, she did—until survival stopped feeling like living.

We talk about what it’s really like to live in a body you can’t trust, how chronic illness slowly erodes confidence and identity, and the quiet grief that comes from canceling plans, numbing pain, and wondering if this is just how life will always be. Courtney shares the moment she realized traditional medicine alone wasn’t enough—and how healing finally began when she stopped treating her body like the problem and started listening to it as an ally.

This conversation explores:
 • How chronic pain and inflammation impact self-trust and identity
 • Why “just pushing through” keeps women stuck in survival mode
 • The difference between coping and true healing
 • How nutrition, nervous system regulation, and mindset work together
 • Why language matters when it comes to diagnosis and identity
 • What it means to believe your body is for you, not against you

If you’ve ever been told your symptoms are normal, minimized your pain because “others have it worse,” or felt disconnected from your body, this episode is for you. Healing doesn’t mean perfection. It means support, curiosity, and learning how to work with your body instead of fighting it.

Courtney is currently offering free access to her Rewire Your Mind, Reclaim Your Health challenge for listeners of this podcast—a two-week experience grounded in science, nervous system healing, and practical mindset tools.

You can connect with Courtney and explore her work here:
 Website: https://www.vitalityholistichw.com

Free Challenge: https://www.vitalityholistichw.com/HYH

Instagram / Facebook / YouTube: @VitalityHolisticHW
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-somma-94327117/

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Becoming isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about coming home to who you already are.

In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, Celeste introduces the Radiant Woman Framework, a grounded, embodied approach to identity transformation rooted in values, self-trust, aligned action, and self-love. This conversation explores why identity must come before goals, relationships, or reinvention—and how true change happens quietly through daily choices, not dramatic declarations.

You’ll learn:

• Why identity is the root of everything (not your roles, titles, or relationships)
• How the Radiant Woman Framework (R.A.D.I.A.N.C.E.) supports embodied self-trust
• What it actually means to live in alignment with your values
• How self-love shows up in real life—not just affirmations
• Why becoming is a rhythm, not a destination

This episode is for the woman who’s tired of performing, borrowing identities, or chasing versions of herself that don’t feel true anymore—and is ready to build a life from the inside out.

✨ Identity isn’t something you achieve. It’s something you embody.

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www.myhealingisyourhealing.com

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Burnout doesn’t happen because you’re weak.
 It happens because you’ve been strong for too long without support, boundaries, or permission to pause.

In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I sit down with burnout and wellness specialist Deidre Gestrin, who shares her lived experience of burning out not once—but three times. We talk about what burnout actually looks like in real life (not the Instagram version), why so many women don’t recognize it until they hit a wall, and how our culture continues to normalize chronic exhaustion as success.

This is an honest, grounded conversation about:

• The difference between stress, chronic stress, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress
• Why pushing through is often a survival strategy—not resilience
• How identity, self-worth, and work become dangerously intertwined
• What finally forces change when your body says “enough”
• How healing actually begins (hint: it’s smaller, slower, and gentler than you think)
• Redefining success without sacrificing your health, nervous system, or life

We also talk about rebuilding after burnout—how to listen to your body again, restore self-trust, create sustainable boundaries, and shift from hustle to wholeness without abandoning ambition or purpose.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted but unable to stop…
 If rest feels unsafe or undeserved…
 If your worth feels tied to productivity…
 This episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify & YouTube

🤍 Connect with Deidre & explore her work:
 Website: https://www.abundantwellnessessentials.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deidregestrin

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dgestrin

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dgestrin/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deidregestrin/

✨ Healing doesn’t require collapse.
 ✨ Rest is not weakness.
 ✨ You are allowed to stop.

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Identity Month | The Year of Becoming

What if the discomfort you feel right now isn’t failure…
 but growth?

In this opening episode of The Year of Becoming, we explore what happens when an identity you’ve lived inside for years quietly stops fitting—and the woman you’re becoming hasn’t fully arrived yet.

This episode is not about resolutions, glow-ups, or “New Year, New You” energy.
 It’s about identity death, grief, and the sacred in-between space that precedes real transformation.

Inside this episode, we talk about:

• Why outgrowing an identity can feel disorienting, lonely, and confusing
• How identity change often begins with an ending—not motivation
• Why grief shows up when you shed an old version of yourself
• The difference between persona, truth, and becoming
• How values—not fear or familiarity—anchor real identity work
• What it means to stop trying to be loved as a version of yourself that isn’t real

Celeste also shares her lived experience from the last two years—including walking away from the altar, dismantling relationship-based identity, and relearning who she is without approval, performance, or being chosen.

If you’ve been feeling “off,” unmotivated, or like your old life doesn’t fit anymore—this episode will help you understand why.

You’re not broken. You’re becoming.

This episode also marks the opening of a new season inside the Radiant Women’s Collective—a free, online women’s circle focused on identity, self-worth, self-trust, and becoming who you were always meant to be.

Download the free Core Values worksheet:
myhealingisyourhealing.com

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If you’ve ever said “dating sucks” while doom-scrolling through the apps… this episode is your intervention.

In this conversation, I’m joined by feminine dating coach and archetype queen Lilli Bewley — creator of the Feminine Dating Archetype Quiz and host of the Love with Lilli podcast. Lilli doesn’t teach scripts and tricks. She helps women heal the parts of them that keep choosing the same emotionally unavailable, breadcrumbing, half-in partners on repeat.

We talk about how your dating patterns are not proof that you’re broken — they’re information. Lilli breaks down her four Feminine Dating Archetypes (Chill Woman, Fortress Woman, Goddess Woman, and Magnetic Woman), why attachment style isn’t a life sentence, and how to move from “dating is a war zone” into “dating is where I practice my self-trust.”

If you’re tired of knowing better but still texting the breadcrumb guy, this one’s for you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why dating doesn’t actually “suck” — and what it really means when your experience does
• The four Feminine Dating Archetypes and how to know which one is quietly running your love life
• The difference between intellectual self-love (“I know I’m enough”) and embodied self-love (“I can feel I’m enough”)
• How to stop treating self-love like a transaction (“if I take a bath, then I’m worthy”)
• Why your “bad patterns” are really protective parts trying to keep you safe
• How to use dating apps as a conscious playground instead of a self-esteem shredder
• What it actually looks like to become the Magnetic Woman — in your body, nervous system, and choices

Whether you’re newly single, post-divorce, or just exhausted by the same story in a different hoodie, this episode will help you see your patterns with compassion, not shame — and give you a path to something better.

• Feminine Dating Archetype Quiz:⁠datingarchetype.com⁠
• Website:⁠https://www.lillibewley.com⁠
• Instagram:⁠@lillibewley⁠

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This is the episode your future self has been waiting for.

Today we’re talking about the truth most women feel but rarely name:
You can’t carry everything you survived this year into the next one.

Some identities, patterns, relationships, expectations, and old storylines simply can’t come with you — not because you’re cold or heartless, but because they’re too heavy for the woman you’re becoming.

In this episode, we move through a powerful year-end ritual to help you release what no longer fits and make room for what you’re finally ready to receive.

Inside this episode:

• Why we cling to things that hurt
• The identities you’ve outgrown (and why that’s not failure — that’s evolution)
• How to recognize what needs to stay behind
• The emotional reality of letting go
• A 3-part release ritual to close your year with clarity, softness, and strength
• A declaration practice for the energy you want to carry into your next season

You’ll walk away lighter. Clearer. More attuned to the woman you’re becoming.

If you’re ready to step into community, support, and identity-level transformation…

Join the Radiant Women’s Collective — a free global community for women who are healing out loud, rewriting old stories, and choosing themselves on purpose.
 

We begin A Year of Becoming this January. You’re invited. You belong here.

Join us here: https://www.myhealingisyourhealing.com

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In this episode, I sit down with former English teacher turned powerlifter, coach, and author Natasha “Tasha” Kostalas to talk about what really happens behind the stage-lean photos and polished fitness bios.

Tasha spent 10 years in the classroom, climbing the ladder, overworking herself into panic attacks, sleep paralysis, and binge eating. The turning point? Her brother sitting on the edge of her bed and telling her she couldn’t keep living like this. From that moment to her very first terrifying step into the weight room, Tasha slowly rebuilt her life barbell by barbell.

We talk about:

• The year her dream teaching job completely broke her mental and physical health
• How two hours a week in the gym became the only place she didn’t feel crushed by stress
• The brutal reality of bodybuilding: lost periods, body dysmorphia, frozen libido, and relationships strained by tunnel-vision discipline 
• Why stepping on stage was easier than figuring out who she was afterward
• Her long recovery from binge eating and what healing a relationship with food actually looks like in real life (no quick fixes, just a hundred tiny choices) 
• What “Always stay true to you” means to her now—and how she learned to make decisions for herself instead of for society’s expectations

If you’ve ever felt trapped between discipline and destruction, or if you’ve chased a body, a job, or a life that looked successful while secretly destroying you, this conversation is going to hit deep.

Connect with Natasha

• Instagram: @natashakostalas
• Book: Beyond the Barbell: Confessions of a Female Fitness Competitor
• Substack / Articles & Podcast Hub: natashakostalas.substack.com
• Podcast: Binges to Barbells on Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts 

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No More Good Girl: The Year I Stopped Abandoning Myself

This episode is a reclamation.

Today I’m telling the truth about the year I finally retired the “good girl” and stopped abandoning myself.

Not because I magically became unbothered, invincible, or spiritually bulletproof… but because every part of my life that wasn’t aligned became too heavy to keep carrying — and I had to put it down.

This episode unpacks the patterns I had to release, the identity rupture that shook me awake, and the moment I realized: I am the only person I will be with for every second of my life. So if I don’t choose me… nothing in my life will reflect the woman I’m becoming.

Inside this episode:

• What self-abandonment actually looks like (the raw, human, non-Instagram version)
• How survival patterns masquerade as personality
• Why “being nice” is often just self-erasure in better packaging
• The real story of my year-long unraveling — the relationship, the heartbreak, the hysterectomy, the identity shedding
• The turning point that forced me to stop shape-shifting for approval
• A practical roadmap for choosing yourself without collapsing into guilt
• The tiny daily choices that rebuild self-trust
• The five truths this year hammered into me
• A toolbox to help you stop abandoning yourself and step into your next season with integrity

If you’re ready for a life that reflects the woman you’re becoming — not the girl you performed to survive — this episode is your nudge, your mirror, your permission slip.

And if you want a community to walk this journey with you…

Join the Radiant Women’s Collective — our free global community for women who are done shrinking, done performing, and ready to build a life aligned with truth, integrity, and self-worth.

We begin A Year of Becoming in January. You’re invited. You belong.
www.myhealingisyourhealing.com

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 Today’s episode is one of the most powerful conversations I’ve had on this show — because it’s not just about survival. It’s about rebirth.

My guest, Angie, has lived through things most people never talk about out loud:
growing up unseen, perfectionism as protection, moving across the country for a fresh start, a condo flood, loneliness, grief, depression, and the moment that became her rock bottom — an intentional overdose during the pandemic.

But the most surprising part?

Her scariest leap wasn’t jumping out of helicopters or cliff diving.

It was letting herself be seen.

In this episode, she shares:

• the childhood belief that shaped her entire identity
• the perfectionism that wasn’t ambition — it was survival
• why external validation can never heal internal wounds
• the moment she realized she didn’t want to die
• the coaching call that changed her entire life
• how she finally learned to love herself from the inside out
• why masks collapse, and why that collapse is a gift
• what she wants every woman to know about worth, healing, and asking for help

This is an episode about unlearning, unbecoming, and rebuilding your life from the inside out. It’s about the courage to stop performing. It’s about the moment you stop chasing love and finally let yourself receive it.

And it’s a reminder that you are worthy of a life that feels good — long before you hit rock bottom.

If you feel alone in your healing, this one is for you.

Connect with Angie: runninginslippers.com
Her book Running in Slippers is available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible.
She also offers coaching for high-achieving women ready to stop performing and start becoming.

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