Ep. 177
In this episode of The Zen Effect Show…
We sit inside a deeply human story of heartbreak, choice, and spiritual reclamation. This is a conversation about what happens when a woman decides not to let her past define her and instead writes a new one from the heart.
Raised in an environment that required survival before softness, Tamala Baldwin found herself broken open by heartbreak. But instead of staying stuck in the story she was handed, she picked up the pen and rewired her inner world through long-form writing, visualization, and intentional imagination.
What began as personal healing became a hero’s journey. What healed her heart became a nonprofit. And what rewrote her story is now helping adults, children in foster care, and countless others cultivate inner harmony through storytelling, writing, and creative expression.
This episode is a reminder: Your story is not finished and you hold the pen.
How heartbreak became the doorway to her hero’s journey
The internal clearing required to heal from the environment you were raised in
How long-form writing reprogrammed her heart, mind, and nervous system
The heart–mind relationship explained in a grounded, accessible way
How visualization + long form writing is a powerful tool for rewiring your inner narrative
How one aligned decision can ripple into collective healing
Turning personal healing into purpose through the Becoming Love Project
How storytelling can help you experience “heaven within” even after pain. So many of us are walking around with chapters we never chose. Carrying heartbreak, trauma, and inherited survival patterns like they’re permanent truths.
Zen’s Closing Note: This conversation speaks to the quiet power of choice.
In Black communities, especially, healing is often postponed in favor of endurance. But this episode disrupts that pattern. It honors softness as strength. Creativity as medicine. Storytelling as liberation.
It shows what’s possible when healing the inner world becomes the foundation for changing the outer one when a single heart healed creates a space for many more to do the same.
This is for anyone who has experienced loss, disappointment, or emotional rupture and knows there has to be more than surviving the aftermath.
Healing doesn’t always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it whispers: “Rewrite this.”
You don’t need permission to rewrite your story and rewire your inner self
You don’t need to fully understand the how. You just need the courage to choose again from the heart.
Your story is alive. Your heart is intelligent. And one aligned decision can shift generations.
Keep choosing love. Keep writing to yourself home to your power.
This Episode is Sponsored by: Antlanta Eats
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Connect with Tamala
- Non- Profit: The Becoming Love Project
- Film & TV production company: Soul Kisses Productions
- Her Instagram: @tamalabaldwin
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