When your ego panics during spiritual growth, it can feel like you're slipping backward, but you're not. In this episode of The Daily Surrender, Jennifer Ragazzo breaks down why ego fear, doubt, and discomfort are actually signs of expansion.

Jen shares a recent "contraction" in her own journey and explains how returning to presence and trusting God in the moment - anchors you back into truth.

You'll learn why spiritual growth isn't linear, how the nervous system reacts during awakening, and how to stop interpreting discomfort as failure. If you've been spiraling, doubting yourself, or wrestling with fear, this episode will help you breathe, soften, and remember who and whose you are.

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In today's episode, Jennifer welcomes back her close friend and colleague, Carmen Hunter, for one of the most vulnerable and redemptive conversations to ever air on the podcast.

Carmen shares the deeply personal story of the unraveling of her 16-year marriage — a journey marked by betrayal, shock, grief, and ultimately, profound spiritual healing. This isn't a story told to linger in the pain, but to illuminate the way God rebuilds a life from the inside out when everything falls apart.

Together, Jennifer and Carmen explore themes of codependency, attachment wounds, boundary work, victimhood, forgiveness, and what it really means to surrender when life does not go as planned.

This episode is for any woman navigating divorce, separation, betrayal trauma, or the quiet ache of wondering what comes next. Carmen's honesty and hard-won wisdom offer hope, truth, and permission to heal in a way that honors both your soul and your story.

Inside this episode:

• The moment Carmen's life changed and the moment God met her in the wreckage

• How past wounds shape relationship patterns

• The difference between surviving and truly healing

• The powerful role of therapeutic separation

• How boundaries with consequences create clarity

• Why forgiveness frees you

• Choosing surrender over control

• What healing looks like years later

This conversation is an invitation to remember that healing is holy work and that you are held every step of the way.

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For decades, Jennifer Ragazzo believed her depression was something she'd have to manage forever. In this powerful episode, she shares her deeply personal story and the truth she uncovered after 30 years of seeking healing.

What if depression isn't just a chemical imbalance, but a message from your body, mind, and soul? Jennifer explores how gut inflammation, hormonal shifts, stress, nutrient deficiencies, and spiritual disconnection can all manifest as depression and anxiety, especially for women in midlife and menopause.

You'll learn:

• Why depression is rarely driven by one single cause

• How gut and hormone imbalances disrupt mood

• What happens when antidepressants thin the gut lining

• How the inner critic and subconscious patterns deepen despair

• The spiritual roots of disconnection and the path home to peace

This episode is for every woman who's ever thought, "Something's wrong with me." It's an invitation to look deeper, to remember your worth, and to return to the truth that you were never broken.

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Have you ever felt like your light is dimming because you're giving too much — saying yes when your soul is screaming no?

In this powerful midlife conversation, Jennifer explores boundaries as sacred acts of love, not rejection. You'll learn how healthy, heart-based boundaries help preserve your energy, strengthen your vessel, and align you with the highest good for all — including God's divine plan for your life.

Boundaries are not walls; they are sacred containers for your light. And when you set them from love rather than reactivity, you not only honor yourself — you honor God.

Jennifer unpacks:

• Why midlife is the divine call-up to restore your vessel and stop leaking energy
• The metaphysical signs of leaky boundaries — from fatigue and gut issues to resentment and anxiety
• How to tell if your boundary is from love or reactivity
• Why saying no can be an act of highest service to God and others
• The spiritual wisdom of Jesus when He told His disciples to "shake the dust off their feet" (Matthew 10:14)
• A guided visualization to seal your energetic vessel and reconnect to Divine strength
• A powerful midlife mantra:

"My energy is sacred. I protect it with wisdom and love. I honor my vessel as a holy creation of God. I trust that every boundary set in love serves the highest good of all."

This episode will leave you feeling grounded, empowered, and spiritually aligned to preserve your light and serve from overflow - not depletion.

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In this heartfelt episode, Jennifer and her husband Dante share the deeply personal story of how they tore their marriage down to rebuild it on truth, humility, and faith.

After years of growing apart, midlife changes, and old wounds resurfacing, they reached a breaking point that became their greatest turning point. Guided by God and a willingness to surrender control, they discovered what real love and partnership truly mean.

This is the first episode in a special Marriage & Faith Series a transparent look into what it takes to heal, reconnect, and rebuild a sacred union from the inside out.

Topics include:

• How masculine and feminine energy shape relationships

• Healing through humility and surrender

• Rebuilding trust and emotional safety

• Putting God first in marriage

• How self-work transforms your partner

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Gossip can masquerade as venting or "just processing," but it quietly lowers our frequency, leaks our energy, and blocks intimacy with God. In this episode, Jen unpacks the psychology (dopamine/oxytocin), the energetic toll, and the spiritual cost of speaking against others—then offers a simple pause practice to shift from gossip to growth. You'll learn how to reclaim peace, strengthen your voice, and let your words become extensions of Divine light.

In this episode

• Why gossip feels good and why it keeps you stuck

• Frequency, faith, and energetic leaks that create fatigue

• The throat center/voice connection: truth-in-love vs. opinion & ego

• Gentle boundaries, prayer, and journaling swaps that raise your vibration

• Reflection questions to transform triggers into growth

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Midlife isn't a breakdown; it's a Divine call-up.

In this powerful and heart-opening conversation, Jen is joined by Claudia Petrilli, a certified health coach, educator, and advocate for midlife women, to explore the sacred intersection of hormones, healing, and higher purpose.

Together they unpack:

• The hormonal shifts that shape midlife and why your changing body is not betraying you — it's inviting you to listen deeper.
• How pushing, striving, and over-controlling can actually sabotage your hormones, creativity, and peace.
• Why redefining success in this season means aligning with your biology and your soul.
• The spiritual and emotional freedom that comes when you slow down, surrender, and allow God to lead your next chapter.

This episode is an empowering reminder that midlife isn't the end of your vitality, it's the beginning of your awakening.

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Claudia Petrilli is a straight-shooting Functional Health & Integrative Nutrition Coach and Midlife Health Educator helping high-achieving women over 40 navigate perimenopause — without losing their minds or their confidence. She's the creator of The Perimenopause Method and host of Perimenopause Simplified, a top-rated podcast that cuts through the noise with real talk about hormones, metabolism, and thriving in midlife. Claudia combines advanced testing with mindset and lifestyle coaching to help women fix fatigue, ditch brain fog, sleep deeply, and feel amazing in their skin. Her mission is to help women stop settling, self-advocate like pros, and make bold, informed choices about their health—because midlife is just the beginning.

Get in Touch With Claudia:

• Website: https://claudiapetrilli.com/
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If you've healed your gut a dozen times and your symptoms still keep coming back, this episode is for you.

After nearly 15 years in functional medicine and holistic coaching, Jen Ragazzo has seen it all - thousands of gut protocols, elimination diets, and supplement regimens. But the real healing doesn't start with another pill or probiotic, it starts with the nervous system and the energy behind your symptoms.

In this week's episode, Jen explores the metaphysical root causes of gut dysfunction, from trapped emotions to chronic stress and unprocessed trauma. She shares powerful stories from her practice and her own journey with H. pylori, helping you see your gut symptoms not as failures, but as messages from your body asking for peace, safety, and release.

If you've ever felt like your body is betraying you, this episode will help you understand that it's actually fighting for your attention and your healing.

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Are you eating well, taking supplements, journaling, meditating, praying—and still stuck in the same cycles of anxiety, gut flares, or chronic symptoms? In this episode, a coach with nearly 15 years of integrative experience explains why protocols alone aren't enough and how the real bottlenecks are often nervous system dysregulation, subconscious beliefs, stored emotions, trauma imprints, and spiritual disconnection.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why healing is non-linear and cannot be compartmentalized

• How a chronically activated amygdala & stress response block repair

• The impact of conditioning (family, culture, religion) on identity and health

• Big T / little t trauma and what emotional suppression does in the body

• A practical 5-step path: Awareness, Compassion, De-conditioning, Emotional Expression, Spiritual Connection

• Modalities that help access and integrate the subconscious (EMDR, brainspotting, Gupta, MDMA-assisted work in appropriate therapeutic contexts)

Who this is for: Anyone doing "all the right things" without sustainable progress—practitioners, seekers, and strugglers ready to look beneath the surface and heal at the level where change actually sticks.

Takeaway: Less "more." More alignment. Start by noticing your inner dialogue and body cues, meet them with compassion, and choose one practice that reconnects you to truth and the Divine within.

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In this heart-to-heart conversation, Jen and Heather Tesch, Energy Healer and Business Expansion Partner, explore the mystery of energy and frequency as the link to the spiritual realm. Together, they share personal stories, insights, and practical tools for aligning your body, mind, and soul with your divine design.

You'll hear about:

• The nervous system as the soul's messenger

• How energy and frequency shape health and healing

• The power of presence in regulating the body and spirit

• Simple practices to shift your vibration and open to abundance

This episode is a reminder that you are divine energy and when you align with your true essence, you step into infinite possibilities of healing, joy, and peace.

Tune in, take a deep breath, and reconnect with the light within.

Let's Connect!

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• Instagram: @heather_tesch
• Website: www.heather-tesch.com
• Email: [email protected]