Becoming UNNUMB: Healing Trauma, Survival Mode & Reconnecting With Yourself | Dr. Stephanie Byerly

Episode Title: Heal Out Loud: Breaking Free from Burnout, Boundaries, and the Need to Prove Your Worth

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/fan_mail/new] What happens when faith, healing, boundaries, and self-worth collide? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Maz Alexander—Mental Wellbeing & Transformational Coach, Social Worker, Author, Speaker, Mother, and Comedian—to discuss breaking free from burnout, people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, limiting beliefs, and the cycles that keep us feeling stuck. Maz shares insights from her book, Arise Kintsugi Queens: You Are Becoming All You Were Meant to Be, and explains how our broken places don't disqualify us—they can become the very places where healing, strength, and purpose emerge. In this episode we discuss: ✨ Healthy boundaries ✨ Faith and recovery ✨ Self-care without guilt ✨ Burnout and emotional exhaustion ✨ Reclaiming your identity ✨ Overcoming limiting beliefs ✨ Self-worth and personal transformation ✨ Breaking generational cycles ✨ Healing from rejection ✨ Living authentically If you've ever felt overworked, depleted, rejected, unworthy, or trapped by expectations and traditions, this conversation is for you. 🎧 Episode Title: Heal Out Loud: Breaking Free from Burnout, Boundaries, and the Need to Prove Your Worth Connect with Maz Alexander: 📖 Book Reviews: https://gettingtotherootwithdrreva.blog/2024/04/01/resilience-through-brokenness-lessons-from-arise-kintsugi-queens/ https://www.melanatedminds.co.uk/maz-alexander-arise-kintsugi-queens 🔗 Connect with Maz: https://linktr.ee/mazwellbeing Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/support] Music: Peachy Musician: Rizensun URL: https://rzznsnn.bandcamp.com/

Catch It. Check It. Choose It: A Path to Purposeful Positivity

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/fan_mail/new] In this empowering episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christi Russell Strong sits down with author, speaker, and positivity strategist Cindi Goodeaux for a meaningful conversation about healing negative self-talk, rebuilding self-worth, emotional resilience, and learning how to choose purposeful positivity without denying real emotions. Together, they explore the difference between toxic positivity and healthy mindset transformation while sharing practical tools for overcoming self-sabotage, rejection, identity loss, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and limiting beliefs. Cindi introduces her powerful “Catch It. Check It. Choose It.” method — a practical approach to reframing negative thoughts, building confidence, and creating healthier emotional patterns. This episode is for anyone navigating: • Low self-esteem • Trauma recovery • Emotional healing • Anxiety & overwhelm • People-pleasing • Negative thought cycles • Personal growth & mindset shifts • Confidence rebuilding • Healing from emotional pain • Learning to love yourself again 🎙 Episode Title: Catch It. Check It. Choose It: A Path to Purposeful Positivity Guest: Cindi Goodeaux Host: Christi Russell Strong Connect with Cindi Goodeaux: https://linktr.ee/WriteCuteStories Follow Breaking Curses with Excellence for more conversations centered around healing, self-worth, emotional wellness, breaking generational cycles, mindset growth, and purposeful living. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/support] Music: Peachy Musician: Rizensun URL: https://rzznsnn.bandcamp.com/

Becoming UNNUMB: Healing Trauma, Survival Mode & Reconnecting With Yourself | Dr. Stephanie Byerly

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/fan_mail/new] What happens when trauma doesn’t just hurt you… but disconnects you from yourself? In this deeply powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Dr. Stephanie Byerly joins us for an honest, transformative conversation about emotional numbness, survival mode, high-functioning trauma, radical self-compassion, and what it truly means to become “UNNUMB.” Dr. Stephanie Byerly is an anesthesiologist, trauma-informed professional coach, TEDx & keynote speaker, founder of The UNNUMB Method & The UNNUMB Coaching Collective, helping people reconnect to themselves through healing, awareness, purpose, and emotional safety. In this episode, we discuss: ✨ How trauma quietly lives in the body and nervous system ✨ Why many high-achieving people secretly feel emotionally disconnected ✨ The hidden impact of survival mode, burnout, and perfectionism ✨ Reframing pain without minimizing your experience ✨ Radical self-compassion and reconnecting with your identity ✨ Learning how to live through a new lens of power, possibility, and purpose This conversation is for the person who has spent years being “strong” while silently carrying emotional exhaustion, grief, pressure, or unresolved pain behind closed doors. You are not weak for feeling numb. Many people learned numbness as protection. Healing begins when we safely reconnect with ourselves again. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and everywhere podcasts are streamed. Connect with Dr. Stephanie Byerly: 🌐 http://www.stephaniebyerly.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniebyerlymd If this episode touched your heart, helped you feel seen, or encouraged your healing journey, and you would like to support the continued mission of these conversations, donations of any amount are greatly appreciated: 💜 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/venmocs/8f846c0e-88d8-4870-8ac1-bacda255de55?created=1778962609 💜 Square: https://square.link/u/UkJbTpBw Music: Peachy Musician: Rizensun URL: https://rzznsnn.bandcamp.com/

Breaking Inherited Limitations: Rewriting the Story You Were Given

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/fan_mail/new] In this deeply honest and transformational episode, Christy Russell-Strong sits down with Tiyon L Simpson to discuss breaking inherited limitations, overcoming mental health struggles, healing from internal battles, and building a life beyond survival mode. Together, they unpack generational patterns, mindset shifts, identity, emotional healing, purpose, and what it really takes to rise above the environments and beliefs that try to define us. This episode is for anyone who has ever felt stuck, overlooked, emotionally exhausted, or afraid they could never become more than what they came from. You are capable of building a different future. Connect with Tiyon L Simpson: Facebook: Facebook Profile Instagram: @tiyonlsimpson LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile YouTube: TLS E Vision YouTube Channel The Life of Someone Extraordinary Podcast: 🎧 Listen on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts Music: Peachy Musician: Rizensun URL: https://rzznsnn.bandcamp.com/

Stop Playing Small: What It Really Takes to Be Seen, Heard, and Respected

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/fan_mail/new] Stop playing small and start stepping into your purpose. In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina sits down with Dr. Natasha Norris to talk about self-worth, confidence, visibility, and personal growth—and what it really takes to be seen, heard, and respected in your life and career. This conversation dives deep into: Overcoming self-doubt and fear Breaking generational cycles and limiting beliefs Building confidence and emotional healing Stepping into leadership and purpose-driven success Letting go of people-pleasing and shrinking If you’re on a self-growth journey, looking to improve your mindset, heal from past experiences, and level up your life—this episode is for you. 🎧 Tune in and take the next step toward becoming who you’re called to be. Ways To Contact Dr. Norris  MEDIA Collective https://www.natashanorris.com SKINCARE https://www.sbcmg.com Email Natashaspeaks@natashanorris.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454261/support] Music: Peachy Musician: Rizensun URL: https://rzznsnn.bandcamp.com/