What if your patterns in love weren't proof that you're broken but invitations to finally come home to yourself?

In this powerful episode, I'm joined by Leona Schrock, a fellow coach, podcast host, and former member of the Amish community who shares her journey of leaving religious shame behind, healing after a toxic marriage, and learning how to reconnect with the version of herself she never got to be in her strict religious upbringing.

We talk about:

• Growing up in the Amish culture and navigating the trauma of leaving

• How identity loss and people-pleasing shape women from a young age

• Why dating after divorce is a mirror for emotional healing

• Being both anxious and avoidant in love—and what that looks like in real life

• The subtle ways women self-abandon in relationships (even when they think they're helping)

• And what it means to reclaim your standards without sacrificing yourself in love

If you were raised to be quiet, "good", self abandoning or repress who you are based on your religious upbringing and now you're trying to figure out how to be authentic, powerful, and free to be you - this episode is going to speak directly to your soul!

🎧 Listen now and let this conversation remind you… You don't have to perform for love. You just have to come back home to yourself.

Listen to my episode on Leona's Podcast Unchained and Untamed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/becoming-aware-of-the-unaware-with-tara/id1676547980?i=1000673009492&l

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• Follow @schrock_Leona on Tiktok
• Visit Harmony Home Organization to learn more about Leona

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