Rooted To Rise: Real Talk for Women Ready to Grow

Kimberly Rash sits down with her longtime friend Tara McCarthy, founder of Prakriti Healing, for a raw and soul baring conversation about faith, fear, and the sacred work of rebuilding your life from the inside out.

Tara opens up about leaving a fifteen year career at a homeless shelter to trust an unexplainable pull toward opening her own healing space, and how that leap of faith turned into four years of steady growth. The two friends trace the winding paths that led them both from traditional religion into a deeper, more personal spirituality, sharing how learning to listen to their bodies, release the fear of what others think, and trust in divine timing has reshaped how they live, work, and show up for the women around them. Along the way they talk candidly about breathwork, energy work, Reiki, and the importance of building a team of trusted practitioners rather than trying to do it all alone.

Kimberly and Tara remind listeners that healing rarely follows a straight line, and that every modality, every mentor, and every season of change has its place. Their conversation is a gentle nudge to trust the nudges of your own body and spirit, even when the path looks nothing like you expected.

• Faith and healing
• Christian mystic journey
• Energy healing
• Breathwork training
• Reiki certification
• Body awareness and boundaries
• Collaboration over competition among healers
• Releasing fear and trusting divine timing
• Holistic wellness business
• Spiritual awakening
• Women's healing space
• Letting go of fear
• Listening to your body
• Holistic healing modalities
• Trauma and therapy resources
• Wellness entrepreneur journey
• Spiritual growth and identity
• Healing collaboration over competition
• Divine Feminine
• Mind body spirit connection
• Massage therapy and body work
• Law of attraction and faith
• Full circle friendship

• Exploring what it means to identify as a Christian mystic
• How personal spiritual awakenings can reshape a faith practice
• Balancing traditional religion with a deeper, personal relationship with God

• The difference between breathwork and pranayama
• How Reiki and energy work support the body's healing process
• Understanding when to combine massage, breathwork, and energy work

• Letting go of an identity that no longer serves you
• Learning to trust your body's yes and no
• Releasing the fear of what others think when making a change

• Building a referral network of trusted holistic practitioners
• Choosing collaboration over competition in wellness work
• How full circle friendships support long term healing

• Recognizing when a service or practice is draining rather than fulfilling
• The connection between nervous system regulation and honest living
• How unresolved trauma can show up in daily life and relationships

• Creating safe, supportive spaces for women rebuilding their lives
• Providing childcare and housing support so mothers can heal and work
• Passing down healthy models of faith and community to the next generation

• Trusting an unexplainable pull can lead you to the right opportunity at the right time, as it did when Tara found the building for Prakriti Healing.
• Spiritual growth often means releasing inherited fear based beliefs and building a more personal relationship with faith.
• The body gives clear yes and no signals, and learning to trust those signals protects your peace and your purpose.
• No single healer or modality works for everyone, so building a referral network of trusted practitioners serves clients better than trying to do it all.
• Letting go of an identity that no longer fits, even one built over many years, opens space for the next season of growth.
• Healing is a collaborative, full circle process, and the right people often show up exactly when they are needed.

"Ladies, listen to your bodies."

"We're allowed to change, and changing is so hard."

"If you can't be happy, if you can't feel relaxed, joy, and have peace, how can you pour that into anybody else?"

"There are no mistakes, right?"

"Everyone's journey is just different."

• Faith evolution and personal spirituality
• Entrepreneurship in the wellness space

Host Kimberly Rash dives into the often invisible weight carried by the caretakers, fixers, and oldest siblings who became responsible long before they should have had to. She shares how being praised as “strong” can quietly turn into a cage that keeps women from admitting they are tired, and why so many learn early that resting and receiving help feel like forms of weakness. Pulling from her own experience raising a large family without a built-in support system, Kimberly walks through the difference between true strength and the exhausting performance of doing it all alone. She talks through love languages, boundaries, and the practice of letting other people bless you without guilt. This episode closes with a gentle challenge to find one thing you can put down this week, one thing you can delegate, and one thing you can finally stop carrying by yourself.

• Learning to receive blessings without guilt or resistance
• What scripture says about rest and Sabbath for the overextended woman

• Using love languages as a healing and communication tool in relationships
• Therapy, somatic release, and other tools for letting go of chronic overgiving

• Unlearning the belief that worth is earned through how much you carry
• Breaking free from the superwoman identity without losing your strength

• Building a safe support circle so no one has to carry everything alone
• Setting boundaries with extended family without guilt

• invisible load mental load
• boundaries without guilt
• oldest daughter syndrome
• superwoman complex
• faith based self care
• receiving help gracefully
• rest is not selfish
• love languages in relationships
• women's mental health podcast
• healing from overgiving
• setting boundaries with family
• self-worth beyond productivity
• Christian women's podcast
• refilling your own cup
• support system for moms

• Many women did not choose the caregiver role, they grew into it or were placed into it as children, becoming the oldest sibling or the one who anticipated everyone's needs.
• Being called “strong” can quietly become a cage. When everyone sees you as strong, no one asks if you are tired or notices when you are struggling.
• Needing support is not a weakness. Learning to receive help, gifts, and kindness without guilt is part of breaking the cycle of overgiving.
• Knowing your own love language, and the love language of those around you, helps you recognize and appreciate the ways people actually try to care for you.
• Strength is not carrying everything alone. Strength is asking for help, setting boundaries, admitting you are tired, and recognizing that your needs matter too.
• The healthiest caregivers are the ones who learn to refill their own cup so they can show up from wholeness instead of depletion.

• “You were never meant to carry it all. Strength isn’t carrying everything alone. Strength is knowing when to ask for help.”
• “Somewhere along the way, many women learn that resting was selfish.”
• “Stop blocking people’s blessing.”
• “We’re not machines. You’re a human being, you’re a human doing, and you need care.”

• How caregiving identity forms early in life and follows women into adulthood
• The difference between true strength and the exhausting performance of being unbreakable
• Recognizing the physical toll of chronic caregiving and burnout
• Simple weekly rituals for refilling your own cup

• Raising kids who do not see overworking as a flex
• How the oldest daughter role shapes mothering decades later

• Growth often feels confusing before it feels empowering, and restlessness can be a sign of expansion rather than something being wrong.
• Outgrowing people is not about superiority. It happens because comfort with an old version of you can create distance when you change.
• Releasing identities like the people pleaser, the overachiever, or the go to person is one of the hardest parts of growth.
• Major life transitions, including parenting shifts and career changes, often trigger a deeper identity search.
• Setting boundaries protects emotional and physical health, even when it disappoints people who benefited from the old version of you.
• Judgment toward others who are changing is often more about our own unmet desires than about their choices.
• Becoming who you are meant to be happens one small decision at a time, not through a single dramatic overhaul.

Memorable Quotes

• “Some identities protected us for a season, but eventually they become too heavy to keep wearing.”
• “Only you can change you. No one else is gonna do it for you.”
• “Some seasons aren't about finding yourself, they're about allowing yourself to become.”

Themes Explored

• Identity and self-worth
• Faith and spiritual growth
• Relationships and community
• Motherhood and the empty nest transition
• Emotional health and boundaries

Healing was never meant to be a checklist, and Kimberly Rash is here to prove it.

Kimberly walks through a wide range of healing tools beyond the basics, including nervous system regulation, somatic healing, EMDR, inner child work, forgiveness, energy healing, sound healing, and visualization. She shares an emotionally raw personal story about finally forgiving her ex-husband after years of trying to force it, and how that moment cracked something open in her that led to real freedom. Throughout, she reminds listeners that healing is deeply personal, that no single modality works for everyone, and that faith is often the real force behind any tool’s effectiveness.

Kimberly closes by encouraging listeners to release the pressure of healing on anyone else’s timeline and to trust the small steps they’re already taking. She reminds everyone that healing isn’t about becoming a finished product, it’s about becoming.

Exploring diverse healing modalities, including nervous system regulation, somatic work, EMDR, inner child healing, forgiveness, energy healing, sound healing, and visualization, through the lens of faith, personal experience, and the belief that healing is non-linear and deeply individual.

Pick just one healing modality that resonates with you rather than trying to do everything, and trust your small steps as part of an ongoing healing journey rooted in faith.

• Nervous system regulation
• Somatic healing
• EMDR therapy
• Inner child healing
• Forgiveness work
• Energy healing and Reiki
• Sound healing
• Visualization practice
• Trauma healing
• Healing modalities
• Faith based healing
• Christian forgiveness
• Body awareness
• Emotional release
• Self-compassion
• Healing is not linear
• Mind body connection
• Spiritual healing tools
• Releasing resentment
• Healing journey

Key Takeaways

• You cannot heal in the same nervous system state your body learned to survive in.
• Trauma is stored in the body, not just the mind, which is why somatic healing focuses on body awareness rather than just thoughts.
• EMDR can help the brain reprocess stuck traumatic memories, but it is not the right fit for everyone.
• Inner child work is not about blaming parents, it is about recognizing unmet needs and becoming the safe adult your younger self never had.
• Forgiveness does not excuse what happened, it releases your attachment to carrying the wound forever, and it is most often a gift you give yourself.
• Energy healing, Reiki, and sound healing can support relaxation and emotional release even if they look different from traditional therapy.
• Visualization helps you move toward the healed version of yourself by picturing who you want to become instead of replaying worst case scenarios.
• Healing is not a checklist or a perfect routine, it is an ongoing relationship with yourself.
• Faith is often the real power behind any healing modality, it is your faith that makes the tool effective.
• Healing is never fully finished, everyone is always healing in progress, and new wounds can surface even after past ones are resolved.

Memorable Quotes

• “You cannot heal in the same state your body’s learned to survive in.”
• “Healing often just starts beginning when your body finally believes the danger is over.”
• “Forgiveness is releasing your attachment to carrying the wound forever.”
• “Not everyone will deserve access to you ever again, but everyone deserves the opportunity to stop carrying the poison that only hurts them.”
• “You’re not stuck, you’re becoming.”
• “It is your faith that has healed you. It’s not always the modality.”

Themes

• Healing as a personal, non-linear process
• The connection between body, mind, and spirit
• Forgiveness as self-liberation
• Faith as the foundation behind every healing tool
• Becoming versus arriving

Call to Action

Pick just one healing modality that resonates with you rather than trying to do everything, and trust your small steps as part of an ongoing healing journey rooted in faith.

Kimberly Rash explores healing modalities beyond the basics, including nervous system regulation, somatic healing, EMDR, inner child work, forgiveness, energy healing, sound healing, and visualization. She shares a raw personal story of forgiving her ex-husband and reminds listeners that healing is deeply personal, non-linear, and rooted in faith.

Healing is not a one size fits all journey, and this episode dives into the deeper modalities that many women turn to once the foundational healing work has been done. Kimberly Rash unpacks nervous system regulation, somatic healing, EMDR, inner child work, forgiveness, energy healing and Reiki, sound healing, and visualization, explaining what each one looks like in practice and who it tends to help most.

Kimberly shares a vulnerable personal story about the years she spent trying to forgive her ex-husband out of obligation before finally feeling true freedom the night she let go for real. She connects that experience to a larger truth, that forgiveness is rarely about the other person and almost always about releasing the poison that only hurts us. Throughout the episode, she weaves in faith, reminding listeners that healing tools matter, but it is faith behind the modality that makes lasting change possible.

By the end, listeners are encouraged to stop measuring their healing against anyone else’s timeline and to trust that small, consistent steps are enough. This episode is a gentle, faith rooted invitation to keep becoming rather than waiting to arrive.

Faith and Spiritual Growth

• What it means that it is your faith that heals you
• Prayer as a healing modality
• Faith versus placebo, exploring spiritual conviction in healing

Healing Modalities and Tools

• A deeper dive into EMDR and what to expect
• Sound healing and worship music as nervous system tools
• Building a personalized healing toolkit

Identity and Self-Worth

• Becoming the safe adult your inner child never had
• Visualizing the woman you are becoming

Relationships and Community

• Forgiving someone without reconciling with them
• Co-parenting and co-grandparenting after conflict

Emotional and Physical Health

• How trauma lives in the body
• Recognizing nervous system states like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn

Motherhood and Healing

• Modeling healthy forgiveness for your children
• Breaking generational patterns through inner child work

• Healing is not about becoming a different person, it is about reconnecting with who you were before life convinced you that you weren’t enough.
• Journaling helps release the thoughts you carry alone and reveals patterns over time.
• Breathwork signals safety to a nervous system stuck in fight or flight.
• Meditation is about awareness, not a perfectly empty mind.
• Therapy and life coaching offer outside perspective and support, and asking for help is a strength.
• Support groups remind us that healing happens in connection, not isolation.
• Movement releases stored stress, grief, and anger from the body.
• Time in nature, including walking, the ocean, and even tree hugging, restores the soul and the mind.
• Gratitude does not erase pain, it simply helps us notice what is still good.
• Creative expression, from crafting to gardening to pottery, is a valid and powerful healing modality.
• You do not need to try every modality, just take the next small step.

• “Healing is about reconnecting with who you were before life convinced you that you weren’t enough.”
• “Sometimes healing starts the moment we stop carrying everything alone.”
• “Trauma tells us that we are alone. Healing reminds us we’re connected.”
• “You’re not broken, you’re becoming.”

• Journaling and honest self-reflection
• Breathwork and nervous system regulation
• Meditation and present moment awareness
• Therapy, life coaching, and group support
• Movement as emotional release
• Nature as a healing teacher
• Gratitude as a practice, not a performance
• Creative expression as healing

Choose one healing modality from this episode and take it as your next small step this week. Check out the Rooted to Rise Gratitude Journal on Amazon ($10–$10.99) or in person at Kimberly’s farm cart, and stay tuned for upcoming life coaching sessions, available in person or via Zoom.

• You don't heal first and then live. You heal while you're living.
• Bad days are not failures. They are proof of humanity.
• Unprocessed trauma and chronic stress can manifest as physical illness, including autoimmune conditions.
• Healing is layered, non-linear, and changes your relationship with your past rather than erasing it.
• Connection is essential. Isolation feels safe but keeps you stuck.
• Gratitude and prayer are powerful tools for anchoring your healing journey.
• The healed version of you already exists. Give yourself permission to picture her.

"You don't heal first and then live. You heal while you're living."

"Healing isn't the finish line. It's something that you carry with you as you become."

"You're not stuck. You're becoming."

"What's meant for you, the healed version of yourself, is not gonna require you to abandon who you are."

• Messy healing and releasing the pressure to be "fixed"
• The link between emotional trauma and physical health (Hashimoto's, adrenal fatigue, hypothyroidism)
• Healing while parenting as a single mom
• Recognizing domestic violence and accessing support
• Faith, prayer, and gratitude as healing practices
• Visualizing your healed self as a spiritual and motivational tool
• Reconnecting with your identity, joy, and personality after loss

Need help finding support resources for your healing journey? Reach out to Kimm directly. She is happy to help connect you with therapy, advocacy programs, support groups, or whatever fits your season. Message her through the podcast.

Episode 009 Preview: Specific healing modalities and tools that actually work, including practices Kimm uses personally.

Healing doesn't wait until life slows down, and you don't have to be "fixed" to keep moving forward. Kimm gets honest about healing in the messy middle, the physical toll of chronic stress, and how to root into who you already are while you become who you're meant to be.

What if healing wasn't something you had to finish before your life could really begin? In Episode 008 of Rooted to Rise, Kimm Rash is dismantling the myth that you need to be fully healed before you're allowed to move forward. Because the truth is, most of us are doing it all at the same time: healing, parenting, working, surviving, and somehow still showing up.

Kimm shares openly about her own experience of walking through toxic relationships, financial stress, and the threat of job loss, all while raising four children and trying to hold herself together. She talks candidly about how years of living in fight-or-flight mode broke her body and contributed to adrenal crashes, Hashimoto's disease, and hypothyroidism. And she names what no one told her at the time: your emotional wounds will eventually show up in your physical body.

But this episode isn't just about what breaks you. It's about what becomes possible when you stop waiting for perfect conditions and start healing right where you are. Kimm walks through the importance of community and connection, the danger of prolonged isolation, and why the people cheering you on in your anger aren't always the same people who can help you grow. She points to therapy, advocacy organizations, and the power of finding your niche, because healing looks different for everyone.

She closes with a faith-filled invitation: picture the woman you're becoming. Thank God for her. Root into what is already good and true about you. Release the pressure to have it all figured out. You are not stuck. You are becoming.

If this episode speaks to you and you need help finding support resources, Kimm invites you to reach out directly. And stay tuned for Episode 009, where she'll dive into specific healing practices and modalities that have made a real difference in her own life.

• The power of gratitude practice when you have nothing left
• What it means to pray for discernment in a season of chaos
• How to trust God with the version of yourself you haven't become yet
• Faith as an anchor when healing feels too slow

• Specific healing practices and what worked for Kimm (teased for Ep 009)
• Somatic healing and releasing trauma from the body
• Journaling as a healing tool for women in transition
• Movement, nature, and physical outlets for emotional release

• Recognizing yourself again after someone has chiseled away at who you are
• What self-love actually looks like in real life, not Instagram
• Getting dressed for the woman you're becoming, not the one in survival mode
• Rebuilding confidence after a toxic relationship

• The difference between friends who have your back and friends who help you grow
• Why isolation feels safe but keeps you stuck
• Navigating domestic violence: when you don't even know it's happening to you
• How to find your people in a season of healing

• The connection between unprocessed trauma and autoimmune disease
• Healing Hashimoto's and thyroid issues naturally
• What chronic fight-or-flight does to your body over time
• Anger, unforgiveness, and what they're actually doing to your health (future episode teased)

• Healing while parenting: how your kids can be part of your restoration
• Single mom survival mode and what grace actually looks like
• What your children teach you about love when everything else falls apart

Not everything that got you here is meant to go where you're going. Kimberly Rash opens up about one of the most painful parts of personal growth: letting go of people you love when those relationships no longer pour life into you. Drawing from her own experience of grieving a long-term friendship, she walks through the guilt, the grief, and the slow but powerful process of releasing what no longer serves you so you can rise into the next version of yourself.

Growth requires release, and making space for the right people starts with knowing your own worth.

Host: Kimberly Rash Podcast: Rooted to Rise

Your purpose was never something you lost; it has been inside you all along, waiting for you to come back to it.

Kimberly Rash digs into the pressure so many of us feel to figure out our calling and why the frantic search may be the very thing keeping us stuck. She breaks down what true alignment feels like versus forcing something that was never meant to fit, and how every season of life, including the painful ones, quietly builds the character and clarity needed to step into purpose with confidence. Drawing from her own journey of faith, self-doubt, and slow obedience, Kimberly reminds listeners that purpose is not one defining moment but the accumulation of how you show up again and again across every chapter of your life.

You do not need a perfect plan or a dramatic revelation to move forward. Root yourself in what feels true, release the outside noise, and rise into the calling that has been inside you all along.

• Why your purpose is something you return to, not something you go find
• How to recognize the difference between true alignment and forcing something that does not fit
• What misalignment actually feels like in your body and your spirit
• How the seasons of your life, including the hard ones, are building your purpose
• Why peace is the most reliable signal that you are moving in the right direction
• How to stop letting outside pressure and other people's expectations derail your path

• Purpose is not one big defining thing. It is the accumulation of your character, your gifts, and how you show up over time.
• Nursing, teaching, designing, helping others -- these are conduits. The innate tools God placed inside of you are your actual purpose.
• Misalignment shows up as pressure where there should be pleasure, confusion where there should be joy, and resistance where things should flow.
• Peace that passes understanding is one of the clearest signals you are walking in the right direction.
• You are not behind. Every season of your life is preparing you for the moment you are ready to step fully into your calling.
• Just because you want something does not mean it is what you are meant for. Stop trying to put a circle in a square.

"Your purpose is not something you find. It is something you are coming back to."

"It does not have to always feel easy, but it will always feel true."

"You are not lost. You are learning how to listen. You are not stuck. You are becoming."

"Something that should be giving you pleasure feels like pressure. Something that is supposed to bring you joy feels like confusion. That is misalignment."

"I did not feel qualified, so I did not move. And that is okay. Because here I am today."

Kimberly challenges you to take action within the next 24 hours.

Start a Purpose Journal. Sit down and write out the following:

1. What do I truly believe my purpose is right now?
2. What are three strengths I know I have? (Include the ones people might call flaws. Stubbornness, boldness, intensity -- sometimes the negatives are actually your greatest gifts.)
3. What is the one thing that keeps coming up in my life that I keep ignoring?

Then take one small step that feels aligned. Not a leap. Not a perfect plan. Just one step.

Root. Release. Rise.

You don't need to wait until you feel ready, because confidence was never meant to arrive before you do.

So many women are standing at the edge of the life they want, holding back until they feel bold enough, certain enough, or ready enough to step into it. Kimberly Rash breaks down the confidence myth, revealing that confidence is not a personality trait you either have or you don't. It is something built, decision by decision, through small acts of courage rooted in the things you already do well. She gets honest about the voices, the comparisons, and the critical people that quietly chip away at a woman's sense of self, and why releasing that old noise is where the real growth begins.

The version of you that you have been waiting to become is not someone you have to find. She is already inside you, ready to rise one step, one choice, one brave moment at a time.