In this episode of The Redeeming Stories Podcast, I sit down with Megan Ashton, breathwork facilitator, teacher, and founder of Unity Breathwork, for a conversation about healing, trauma, grief, addiction, and the remarkable tool we all carry with us every day: our breath.

Megan shares her personal journey of discovering connected breathwork during her own healing process and how that experience transformed the way she understood emotional pain, self-awareness, and recovery. Today, she helps others explore the connection between breath, body, and healing, creating spaces where people can safely reconnect with themselves and process emotions that may have been buried for years.

Together, we explore why so many of us disconnect from our emotions, how the body stores stress and trauma, and what it means to trust the wisdom that already exists within us.

This conversation reflects the heart of @redeem_thyself. Healing is not about becoming someone else. It is about returning to yourself.

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For some women, boundaries do not feel empowering at first. They feel risky.

Experts explain that when boundaries once led to conflict; rejection; or harm; the body learns to associate boundaries with danger rather than protection.

This reflection explores the difference between knowing what we need; and learning how to express it safely and clearly.

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In this episode of The Redeeming Stories Podcast, I sit down with Ruth Darlene, Founder and Executive Director of WomenSV: Survivor Voices, for an important conversation about coercive control and the hidden realities of domestic abuse that often go unseen.

Ruth has spent years supporting survivors, educating professionals, and helping communities understand how abuse can exist without visible bruises or obvious violence. Through her work, she has focused especially on women navigating relationships with powerful, sophisticated, and often well-respected abusers whose tactics are subtle, strategic, and deeply damaging.

In our conversation, we explore what coercive control actually is, why it can be so difficult to identify, and how these dynamics affect women, children, identity, safety, and healing. We also talk about the importance of community, documentation, reclaiming your voice, and learning how to tell your story in a way others can understand and support.

This episode reflects the heart of @redeem_thyself and the ongoing conversation around truth, dignity, and reclaiming yourself after environments that required silence in order to survive.

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Many women who have experienced trauma quietly carry responsibility for everything around them.

Not just for themselves; but for outcomes; emotions; stability; and the wellbeing of others. Over time; carrying so much can begin to feel normal. But experts remind us that over-responsibility is often adaptation; not identity.

This reflection explores what it means to slowly return to ourselves; and to recognize what truly belongs to us.

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There was a time in my life when survival was enough.

Survival meant getting through the day, managing responsibilities, building a career, raising my daughters, and continuing to move forward despite the wounds I carried quietly. From the outside, much of my life looked successful. On the inside, I was still trying to understand how childhood trauma, abuse, and years of unhealthy relationships had shaped the way I saw myself and the world around me.

In this episode of The Green Room Podcast, I share my journey from survival to purpose. We talk about trauma, resilience, faith, healing, music, and the long process of reclaiming a voice that was buried beneath years of fear, self-doubt, and people-pleasing. We also explore an important truth: healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you were created to be.

If you have ever wondered whether your story still has purpose, even after everything you have lived through, I hope this conversation encourages you.

Who are we outside of adaptation?

Trauma does not just shape experience; it can shape identity. Many women learn early how to adjust; accommodate; anticipate; and survive. Over time; those adaptations can begin to feel like personality itself.

In this reflection; I explore the quiet question many women eventually ask themselves: Who am I beyond what I needed to become in order to survive?

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In this deeply honest episode of The Redeeming Stories Podcast, Julie M. Lane welcomes Nesha, creator of @nesha_canvascreations and @vulnerablevoices_podcast, for a conversation about healing through art, vulnerability, and human connection. After surviving suicidal thoughts and emotional despair, Nesha shares how creativity, therapy, holistic healing, and self-awareness became a lifeline that ultimately inspired her to create safe spaces for others navigating mental health challenges. Together, they explore emotional regulation, co-regulation, creativity as survival, and the power of being seen without shame. This conversation is a reminder that healing is not linear, vulnerability is not weakness, and no one should have to suffer alone.

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Many women become so accustomed to survival mode that they no longer recognize it as survival.

The constant movement; the pressure to keep going; the inability to rest without guilt; these patterns often begin long before we realize they are there. Experts explain that the nervous system learns through experience; not logic. And sometimes the body continues preparing for danger long after circumstances have changed.

This reflection explores what it means to recognize those patterns with awareness rather than judgment.

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Trauma is not just something we remember; it is something the body experiences and holds.

As I begin this new rhythm of alternating between podcast conversations and weekly reflections, I wanted to begin with something foundational. So many women move through life questioning themselves, wondering why certain patterns remain even years later. What experts are helping us understand is this: the body learns survival long before the mind understands it.

This episode is not about staying in the past. It is about understanding ourselves more clearly, and perhaps with a bit more compassion.

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In this episode of The Redeeming Stories Podcast, I sit down with Kristen Giacomini, interior designer and founder of Flow Designs, for a conversation that goes far beyond design.

Kristen shares how experiencing deep loss at a young age, along with her own health challenges, shaped the way she sees the world and the spaces we live in. What began as a creative path became something much more intentional. A way of helping people create environments that support how they feel, how they function, and how they move through their daily lives.

We talk about the connection between our surroundings and our well-being, the role of kindness and self-talk in shaping our lives, and how even the hardest experiences can quietly shape us into more grounded, compassionate versions of ourselves.

This conversation is a reminder that healing is not only internal. It is also reflected in the spaces we create, the way we care for ourselves, and the way we choose to live each day.

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