wounds to wisdom

In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with Master Healer Cheryl Pace, founder of Be the Change – The Healing Collective, to explore her profound transformation from burnout to awakened healer through a near-death experience and subsequent paralysis.

Cheryl shares her powerful journey of ignoring the universe's gentle nudges until life literally stopped her in her tracks – first through a near-death experience in 2019, and then through COVID-induced paralysis that forced her into four months of complete stillness. It was in that sacred pause that she finally connected to her gifts and learned what it truly means to "share the light."

We dive deep into:

✨ Why forced stillness often becomes our greatest teacher

✨ The soul-to-soul method and working in the Akashic records

✨ How to recognize your body's "yes" vs "no" signals

✨ The shamanic healing wheel and the journey from shedding to sovereignty

✨ Why it's not our job to "fix" people but to hold sacred space

✨ Moving from competition to collaboration in the healing space

Cheryl's story is a beautiful reminder that sometimes we have to completely surrender to remember who we truly are, and that our deepest wounds often become our most potent medicine.

Whether you're feeling called to explore your own healing gifts or you're in your own season of forced stillness, this conversation offers profound insights about trusting the journey and stepping into your authentic power.

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In this deeply personal episode, I share what five weeks of post-surgery recovery revealed about the profound relationship between shadow and light.

While healing, I discovered something unexpected: the more I've learned to sit with collective pain and personal darkness, the more beauty I'm able to see and receive. This led me to wonder—is our capacity to experience beauty only as deep as our ability to feel darkness?

Just as we can only love others to the extent we love ourselves, I explore whether we can only experience wonder to the degree we can hold pain. You'll hear about the moments that caught my heart during recovery, how forced stillness taught me to notice butterflies and ant colonies while holding space for global suffering, and why some of us are meant to transmute collective darkness into something beautiful.

This isn't about choosing light over shadow—it's about discovering how they dance together to create a more integrated, alive way of being in the world.

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In this powerful episode, I sit down with licensed therapist and professional intuitive Annamarie Green to explore her profound journey from devastating loss to creating revolutionary healing methods that bridge clinical psychology with energy work.

Annamarie shares her raw and honest story of losing her partner to suicide while raising a toddler as a young mother, and how traditional therapy wasn't enough to heal the deep trauma she experienced. This led her to discover the transformative power of energy work, which became the foundation for her Intuitive Therapy Method™.

We dive deep into how anxiety and depression function as survival strategies, why traditional talk therapy often falls short, and how addressing trauma at the energetic and nervous system level creates lasting change. Annamarie explains how ancestral patterns get passed down through generations and offers practical insights for parents on creating emotionally honest relationships with their children.

You'll also learn about her upcoming Soul Surgeon program, a 6-month intensive that teaches therapists, coaches, healers, and curious souls how to read, clear, and heal energy to become the intuitive architects of their own lives.

This conversation is a masterclass in understanding how our deepest wounds can become our greatest medicine when we're willing to do the deep work of integration and transformation.

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Website: https://www.annamariegreen.com

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In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of my cousin Danielle, who would have been 42 today. Seven years after losing her to addiction, I'm finally ready to own the truth she saw in me before I could see it myself - that I'm a writer.

Danielle's last question to me was simple but life-changing: "Why aren't you writing?" Three weeks later, she was gone. But her influence on my life has only grown stronger. Today I share how her death cracked me open, how I feel her guidance in the shadow work I now facilitate, and how the very work that flows through me might have saved her life.

I also share one of her poems from just weeks before she passed - a raw, powerful piece about her own shadow work and awakening to her purpose as a poet. This episode is my annual tribute to the woman who taught me that our wounds can become our wisdom, and our pain can become our purpose.

Listen as I explore how grief can activate our gifts, how the dead continue to guide us, and why sometimes we need to lose everything to find who we're meant to be.

Listen to Danielle performing her poem: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16wed8ZCwy/

If you're walking through grief, you might also find comfort in my episodes starting January 23 - February 20 when I lost my brother-in-law: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vd6h8rFjj7hvHzPFyFz0C?si=17e00096c7504e26

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In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with Leigh Ober, certified wellness coach and founder of Compass Coaching Collective, to explore the journey from addiction and eating disorders to profound healing and purpose.

Leigh shares her powerful story of spending nearly a decade in and out of treatment facilities, achieving physical recovery, yet still feeling like something was missing. She discovered that true healing required going beyond traditional approaches to include somatic work, energy practices, and spiritual tools that helped her create genuine safety within her own body.

We dive deep into:

• Why physical recovery from addiction and eating disorders often isn't enough
• How somatic practices like yoga, breathwork, and tapping can create lasting transformation
• The importance of learning to welcome emotions rather than suppress them
• How our bodies hold wisdom and memories that need to be processed somatically
• Building routines and practices that support nervous system regulation
• Transforming wounds into purpose and finding meaning in our struggles
• The journey from hyper-independence to healthy interdependence

Leigh's story beautifully illustrates how our deepest challenges can become our greatest medicine when we're willing to do the deeper work of healing. Her upcoming book "Forged from the Flames" chronicles this journey of transformation, and her coaching work helps other women find their own path to authentic recovery and empowerment.

Whether you're in recovery, supporting someone who is, or simply seeking to understand the deeper layers of healing, this conversation offers profound insights into what true transformation looks like.

Connect with Leigh:Instagram: @compass.coaching.collectiveBook: "Forged from the Flames" (coming soon)

Resources mentioned:

• EFT Tapping
• Somatic breathwork
• Reiki healing
• Hot yoga practice

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In this deeply vulnerable episode, I share my real-time experience with one of my biggest shadow patterns just days before major abdominal surgery.

As someone who struggles deeply with the Hyper Independent shadow archetype, being told I can't lift anything over 5 pounds for 8+ weeks has brought me face-to-face with my greatest growth edge. I open up about the fear, resistance, and opportunity that comes with being forced to ask for and receive help.

You'll hear me work through the RISE Method in real time as I navigate this triggering situation. I share how the Hyper Independent shadow shows up: burning out before asking for help, believing others are unreliable, and filling gaps before people can step in to support us.

I explore the concept of confirmation bias and how our shadows scan for evidence that supports limiting beliefs, plus the profound shift that happens when we begin looking for ways people are showing up for us, even if it's different than we expected.

This episode is raw, honest, and unpolished...exactly what shadow work looks like when we're in the thick of transformation. Whether your prominent shadow is the Hyper Independent, Perfectionist, People Pleaser, or another shadow archetype, you'll find practical wisdom for recognizing when the universe is trying to get your attention and choosing differently before it's too late.

If you're ready to examine your own shadow patterns and make different choices when they show up, this episode offers both permission to be messy in your growth and practical tools for transformation.

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In this powerful conversation, I sit down with my friend and Reiki Master Teacher Trish Brewer to explore how breathwork can transform our relationship with our shadow patterns.

Trish shares her healing journey—from a hospital visit that changed everything to discovering breathwork at a festival in Vermont, where she experienced what she calls "a coming home." We dive deep into how breathwork creates a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind, allowing us to befriend our shadows rather than fight them.

You'll discover:

✨ How shadows form as protective patterns in childhood and why they're actually hidden allies

✨ The science behind why active breathwork can help complete stuck trauma cycles in your nervous system

✨ Why shadow work is like working with a toddler—requiring patience, compassion, and understanding

✨ How breathwork creates a strong enough container to hold whatever arises during integration

✨ Why healing is a lifelong journey (and how to find joy along the way)

Trish beautifully explains how our shadows—like the perfectionist, people pleaser, or hyper independent—once served to protect us but may now be limiting our growth. She shares practical insights about how breathwork can help us move these patterns through our body rather than keeping them stored and stuck.

Whether you're curious about breathwork, ready to explore your own shadow patterns, or looking for somatic tools to complement your healing journey, this episode offers both compassionate insight and practical wisdom.

Connect with Trish Brewer:Website: www.trishbrewer.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/trishbrewerbreathwork 100 Poems & Possibilities for Healing, Volume 2

Referenced in this episode:From Feathers to Buses: How life forces us awake with Amber Cornwall

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In this powerful episode, I explore how shadow work is actually a revolutionary act in our current times. Discover why collective trauma creates the same patterns as personal trauma, and how choosing conscious processing over unconscious reaction literally changes the world.

I share the two choices we have when facing collective challenges, practical tools for staying conscious without burning out, and why your personal shadow integration is actually collective healing work.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by current events or simply want to understand how your inner work contributes to outer change, this episode offers both deep insight and practical guidance for navigating these times with consciousness and love.

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In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with Amber Cornwall, founder of The Awakened Circle, to explore how life's most challenging moments become our greatest teachers and catalysts for awakening.

Amber shares her powerful journey from being a high-achieving public school teacher and national athlete to experiencing a complete spiritual awakening after two major surgeries. We dive into the "feather, brick, bus" metaphor—how the universe sends us gentle nudges that grow increasingly louder until we finally listen to our soul's calling.

This conversation explores the intersection of conscious parenting, shadow work, and stepping into our purpose during these transformative times. Amber opens up about raising sovereign children while breaking generational patterns, the importance of giving ourselves permission to experience joy, and how individual healing contributes to collective transformation.

You'll discover why some of us need louder wake-up calls than others, how to recognize when you're being called to step into your purpose, and practical insights for navigating the tension between service to others and honoring your own needs.

Whether you're feeling stuck in patterns that no longer serve you, questioning your life's direction, or seeking to raise conscious children in an unconscious world, this episode offers profound wisdom and gentle guidance for your journey.

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In this heartfelt episode, I open up about my journey away from formulaic business models toward a more authentic way of connecting with you. After returning from a transformative solo retreat in the Northeast and experiencing profound shifts during the recent Scorpio full moon, I'm ready to burn down what no longer serves and invite you into a new kind of relationship.

I share my realization that trying to force myself into traditional business "boxes" was causing me to show up inauthentically—the very pattern I help visionary women overcome in their own lives. Just as I discovered in my teaching career years ago, true connection doesn't happen through rigid structures, but through authentic presence.

This episode explores how shadow work has helped me recognize when I'm forcing myself to fit into conditioned ways of being that don't resonate—and how this insight has transformed my approach to business and healing.

Join me as I invite you into a more personal relationship—one where we can connect like friends sharing wisdom, rather than through funnels and formulas. I'm stepping more fully into my purpose of helping you uncover the patterns keeping you small and guiding you toward the life you truly long for.

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