Reclaiming HER Resilience

Guest: Priscilla Quezada, Founder of Powerful Authentic Queen (PAC)

Content Warning: This episode discusses domestic violence, sexual abuse, and trauma. Listen at your own pace.

In this episode, Priscilla and Robrenna discuss:

• Recognizing generational trauma patterns in families and relationships
• Understanding that domestic violence includes emotional, financial, verbal, and sexual abuse—not just physical
• Breaking cycles through self-awareness and healing work
• The body's role in storing trauma
• Resources and practices for healing

Takeaway: Love should not hurt. Healing takes time and consistency. Be compassionate with yourself; it does get better.

Support Resources:

My Grandmother's Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem MSW Licsw

Break the Cycle, A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr. Mariel Buqué

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

TheHotline.org 800.799.SAFE (7233) (Domestic Violence Hotline)

RAINN.org Call 800.656.HOPE (4673)

Love is Respect (Teen Dating Violence) 1.866.331.9474 Text LOVEIS to 22522

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PowerfulAuthenticQueen.com

Powerful Authentic Queen Facebook: Facebook

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PowerfulAuthentic Queen YouTube

PowerfulAuthentic Queen Spotify Playlist

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Reclaiming HER Resilience is executive produced and edited by Robrenna Parker.

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

RHR Media Co. is the publishing and media arm of Reclaiming HER Resilience, LLC, creating story-centered media that honors voice, restores agency, and invites women back into authorship of their own lives.

Guest: Carla Rousseau

In this episode of Reclaiming Her Resilience, Robrenna and Guest Carla Rousseau discuss the journey of reclaiming faith and healing spiritual wounds. We explore the differences between spiritual struggles and deeper harm, the importance of processing grief, and the steps to begin healing. The conversation emphasizes the need for safe spaces, community, and the value of asking questions in spiritual growth. We invite you to honor your pain while also seeking hope and connection in your spiritual journeys.

Connect with Carla at Illuminate Soul Care

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Reclaiming HER Resilience is executive produced and edited by Robrenna Parker.

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

RHR Media Co. is the publishing and media arm of Reclaiming HER Resilience, LLC, creating story-centered media that honors voice, restores agency, and invites women back into authorship of their own lives.

Guest: Angela R. Lewis

In this episode of Reclaiming HER Life, Robrenna sits down with former professional basketball player, coach, author, and leadership mentor Angela R. Lewis to explore what it means to slow down, release hustle culture, and intentionally create a life rooted in alignment.

Angela shares how sports strengthened her confidence, even as certain emotional needs and moments of grief were quietly carried in the background. She reflects on the pivotal “ideal day” exercise, which helped her see what she longed for, and how an opportunity in Colombia, where cultural rhythm, nature, and joy transformed how she lives, works, and leads.

Together, they discuss letting go of overachievement, releasing guilt, honoring personal pace, and redefining success—especially for women rebuilding their lives later in life. Angela also introduces her Six V Framework, a powerful model for navigating seasons of life from valley to victory with clarity and compassion.

This conversation is an invitation to rest, realign, and remember: slowing down doesn’t mean giving up—it means choosing yourself.

Connect with Angela R. Lewis:

Angela R. Lewis

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314 598 7870

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Reclaiming HER Resilience is executive produced and edited by Robrenna Parker.

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

RHR Media Co. is the publishing and media arm of Reclaiming HER Resilience, LLC, creating story-centered media that honors voice, restores agency, and invites women back into authorship of their own lives.

In this episode, we explore the relationship between clarity and alignment—and how your body quietly guides you toward what is true, safe, and life-giving.

So many of us are taught to override our bodies, push through discomfort, or ignore the subtle signals that something isn’t right. But your body holds wisdom. It speaks through sensations of ease and tension, energy and exhaustion, openness and contraction. This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen, and begin trusting yourself again.

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

Music by Music Promoted by Envato.com

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

A breathwork meditation for the holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

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Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

In this episode, we conclude Reclaiming HER Story 8-week Group weeks 7 & 8 with befriending our bodies, closure, ritual, and celebration.

Join the 8-week Online Reclaiming HER Story Group

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

Music by Envato.com

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

Grief, Lament, Self-Forgiveness, & Reclaiming Truth

In this episode, we explore grief as something that needs to be witnessed, not minimized or rushed. Drawing on David Kessler’s work, we name grief as a courageous act of truth—especially in the aftermath of relational and spiritual trauma.

We talk about the many invisible losses survivors often carry: loss of safety, identity, time, dreams, relationships, faith communities, and parts of ourselves we had to abandon to survive.

You’ll hear about:

• The five stages of grief (Kübler-Ross) and why they aren’t linear
• How unprocessed grief lives in the body
• Lament as a biblical and cultural practice of truth-telling with God
• Why grief is not weakness—but part of healing

In the second half, we move into Week 6 themes:

• Self-forgiveness as releasing shame and misplaced blame
• Why forgiveness is not the same as reconciliation
• How forgiveness requires truth, not denial
• Reclaiming your story from shame and false narratives

This episode includes reflection questions, gentle somatic practices, and a guided lament to help you name what was lost—without pressure to “move on.”

Takeaway:

Grief is not a setback. Lament honors what was never allowed to be spoken. Truth restores dignity and freedom.

Grief.com

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

Music by Envato.com

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

In this episode, we continue our four-part series on walking through the flow and heart of my 8-week Story Work Group Reclaiming HER Story. This week, we explore weeks 3 & 4, two deeply transformative weeks when women begin to understand the roles they played in their families and how those roles affect their relationships today.

Reclaiming HER Story is an 8-week small group experience for women ready to understand their past, heal long-standing patterns, and reconnect with their authentic voice. Seats are limited — I only take 4-6 women to keep the circle intimate and safe.

Learn more or get on the waitlist, contact Robrenna: [email protected]

3 Brain Systems that Control Your Behavior

Brené Brown Books

Atlas of the Heart

Daring Greatly

The Gifts of Imperfection

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

No Bad Parts

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

Music by Envato.com

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

Join me on a compassionate journey through a four-part series titled Reclaiming HER Story. These episodes are inspired by an eight-week story group designed to support and uplift each other. In our first two weeks together, we focus on creating a safe, nurturing space, reconnecting with our bodies, and gently uncovering the early stories that shaped us. This episode offers a glimpse into the first two weeks of a restorative space for women ready to embrace healing and seek connection.

Connect with Robrenna:

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

Music by Envato.com

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.

Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Sooniti J. Weems, known lovingly as Dr. Soo, is the founder of Well With My Soul Holistic Health Center.

A Doctor of Naprapathy Medicine, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Massage Therapist, Board-Certified Coach, and Certified Clinician of Whole Food Nutrition, Dr. Soo integrates bodywork, mental health coaching, nutrition, and trauma-informed care to bring healing to the whole person—body, mind, and spirit. Dr. Soo supports individuals, including veterans and trauma survivors, in moving beyond pain to resilience, strength, and wholeness. Her work now includes Chi Nei Tsang, an ancient abdominal healing practice she studied in Thailand, expanding her holistic approach even further.

Connect with Dr. Soo

Website: supportmywellness.com

FB and Instagram social media handles

@wellwithmysoulcenter

Connect with Robrenna:

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Edited by Stephen R. Sanders

Music by Envato.com

Reclaiming HER Resilience is published by RHR Media Co. Where Voice is honored, and stories unfold.