Have you ever looked up from the busyness of life and wondered, When did I stop feeling like me?

You haven’t disappeared. You’ve just gotten really good at putting yourself last. Sometimes we leave ourselves gradually, shaped by responsibilities, expectations, and the habit of meeting everyone else’s needs before our own.

In this episode, we’ll explore what it means to return to yourself, not by becoming someone new, but by remembering and reconnecting with the person you’ve always been. We’ll talk about why self-abandonment often happens quietly, the difference between reinvention and remembrance, and how gentle, everyday choices can help you come home to yourself, one small step at a time.

If you’ve been feeling disconnected, stretched thin, or unsure of who you are beneath all the roles you carry, this conversation is your invitation to begin again. You are not lost. You’ve simply put yourself last for too long, and it’s time to return.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Home" - Phillip Phillips

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Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

The most important relationship you'll ever build is the one you have with yourself. Self-trust isn't built in one bold decision; it develops in the quiet moments when your actions begin to match what you know to be true.

In this episode, we explore how integrity goes beyond honesty. Integrity is about wholeness: the alignment between your inner life and your outer life. We'll discuss why self-trust changes every relationship, how repair is part of the process when you break trust with yourself, and why becoming someone you believe starts with the smallest acts of follow-through.

You'll also hear:

This episode is for you if you're ready to stop measuring growth by big breakthroughs and want to recognize the quiet power of showing up for yourself, one honest choice at a time.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Beautiful Anyway" - Judah & The Lion

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

Are you waiting for clarity, or are you really waiting for certainty?

Many of us spend so much time researching, praying, asking for advice, and weighing every possible outcome that we never move forward. It’s rarely because we don’t know what to do; instead, we’re hoping someone or something will remove the risk of making the “wrong” choice.

We're exploring the difference between clarity and certainty, why we keep negotiating with ourselves even after we know the truth, and how self-trust grows when we’re willing to take the next honest step.

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If you're learning to trust your own voice again, this episode is an invitation to stop negotiating with what you already know.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: I Choose - India.Arie

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

Advice is everywhere…

Podcasts. Books. Social media. Experts. AI. Friends and family.

Information has never been more accessible, but has that abundance actually made it easier to trust ourselves?

In this episode, we're exploring the difference between information and discernment, and why learning to recognize the quiet voice beneath the noise may be one of our most important skills.

Together, we'll unpack the voices competing for our attention and explore how to reconnect with the wisdom that's been within us all along.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Animal - MILCK

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What if self-trust isn't something you lose, but something you can rebuild?

Many of us spend years looking outside ourselves for answers, approval, and certainty. We second-guess our instincts, overthink our decisions, and wonder why trusting ourselves feels so difficult.

In this episode, we're exploring how self-doubt often develops as an adaptation rather than a character flaw—and why rebuilding self-trust begins with understanding what happened, not judging ourselves for where we are.

Together, we'll explore the difference between confidence and self-trust, why so many of us outsource our authority, and how honoring small moments of inner knowing can begin restoring one of the most important relationships we'll ever have: the relationship with ourselves.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: North - Sleeping at Last

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What if creativity isn't a talent reserved for a gifted few?

What if it's part of what makes us human?

In the final episode of our Joy & Aliveness series, Tara and Karen are joined by the founder of Stage & Spirit, Veronique MacRae, for a conversation about creativity, identity, and the courage to express what's already within us.

Together, they explore how many adults slowly disconnect from creativity because they begin believing it belongs to someone else. They discuss the freedom that comes from redefining what it means to be an artist, the connection between creativity and emotional well-being, and why creating isn't about perfection or performance.

In This Episode

Whether your canvas is a journal, a garden, a stage, a kitchen, a classroom, or simply the way you love people, this episode is an invitation to remember that you were created to create.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Renegades - X Ambassadors

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What brings you joy?

For many people, that question is surprisingly difficult to answer.

After years of responsibility, caregiving, achievement, and doing what needs to be done, it's easy to lose touch with what we actually enjoy, desire, or long for. We become experts at managing life while forgetting how to participate in it.

In this episode, Tara and Karen explore the hidden cost of disconnecting from ourselves and why reclaiming joy often begins with a simple but powerful question: What do I want?

Together, they discuss curiosity, desire, self-expression, and the small breadcrumbs that can guide us back to what makes us feel most alive.

In This Episode

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

As part of our June series, Joy & Aliveness, we're revisiting one of the earliest conversations from the Your Odyssey archives.

What if joy isn't something you have to earn?

Many of us have been taught to treat joy as a reward—something that comes after the work is done, after the healing happens, or after life becomes easier. But what if joy was never meant to be a prize waiting at the finish line?

In this conversation, Tara and Karen explore the idea that joy is a fundamental part of who we are. Not because life is always easy. Not because difficult emotions disappear. But because joy can exist alongside grief, uncertainty, challenge, and change.

Together, they discuss the duality of joy, why we often lose touch with it, and simple ways to reconnect through gratitude, laughter, movement, presence, and wonder.

In This Episode

Why joy is more than a fleeting emotion

The difference between happiness and joy

How joy can coexist with difficult seasons

Simple practices for reconnecting with delight

Remembering what has always been available to you

Why We're Revisiting This Episode

Throughout this month's Joy & Aliveness series, we've been exploring the idea that joy isn't something we stumble upon after everything is fixed.

It's something we return to.

And this conversation reminds us that perhaps joy has been part of us all along.

Whether you're hearing this episode for the first time or returning to it years later, we invite you to listen for what resonates now.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves

What if joy isn't something you earn, but something you need?

In this episode, Tara and Karen challenge the belief that joy is frivolous, unproductive, or something to be put off until everything else is finished. They explore why play, curiosity, wonder, and delight are not distractions from healing but part of the healing itself.

Through a thought-provoking conversation about our most essential human needs, they invite listeners to reconsider what it means to truly care for themselves. What if joy belongs alongside oxygen and water? What if making space for laughter, creativity, connection, and awe isn't selfish, but necessary?

In This Episode

If you've been postponing what brings you life until a "better time," this episode offers permission to stop waiting.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Joy - Voices of Fire

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What if the reason you feel disconnected isn't that you've lost your purpose, but because you've lost touch with what makes you feel alive?

In this episode of Your Odyssey Podcast, Tara and Karen explore the quiet ways we drift away from ourselves through responsibility, achievement, survival mode, and the endless pressure to keep doing more.

Together, they unpack why joy doesn't live at the end of a completed to-do list, how aliveness often shows up in ordinary moments, and what it looks like to reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been waiting for your attention.

In This Episode

If you've been functioning but not fully feeling, this conversation is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and begin finding your way back.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Alive - Sia

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2