Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 4 - From Shame to Wholeness w/ Daniel Herron

Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Heart Center (Types 2,3,4) with Ro Elliott

What if the image you protect is also the thing keeping you disconnected? In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Heart Triad (Types 2, 3, and 4) and the emotional realities beneath image management, connection, and belonging.Together, they discuss how shame shapes identity, relationships, leadership, and the hidden longing to be fully seen and loved. Through honest reflection and vulnerable storytelling, this conversation reveals how heart-centered strategies are often attempts to secure love while unintentionally building walls against it. Topics include: * Why image consciousness is deeper than appearances * The hidden shame narratives of Types 2, 3, and 4 * How people-pleasing, achievement, and emotional intensity become coping strategies * The paradox of wanting connection while hiding the true self * Moving from performance to genuine relationship * Why “people can’t have a relationship with an image” * What healthy vulnerability looks like in leadership and community This episode offers powerful insight for leaders, helpers, creatives, achievers, and anyone learning how to move from curated identity toward authentic connection. Connect With Ro Elliott:  https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott [https://www.musathewild.com/] Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949] To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways [https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways] If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories] The Broken & Beautiful  [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/]Website [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/] Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders [https://stephenrsanders.com/] Music Promoted by Envato [https://elements.envato.com/] Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network [https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410] - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Gut Center (Types 8,9,1) with Ro Elliott

What if anger isn’t the problem… but the signal? In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Gut Triad (Types 8, 9, and 1) and the hidden emotional patterns beneath instinctive leadership styles. Together, they unpack how anger shows up differently across the gut center and how each type develops protective strategies to maintain control, peace, or perfection.This conversation moves beyond stereotypes to examine the deeper motivations beneath these patterns and the cost of living disconnected from the body, truth, and vulnerability.You’ll hear reflections on: * Why anger is often misunderstood in the gut center * The hidden narratives driving Types 8, 9, and 1 * How control, avoidance, and perfectionism form as survival strategies * The relationship between embodiment and authentic leadership * What begins to change when instinctive types soften their defenses * How grounded leadership emerges through honesty, presence, and integration This episode is both deeply practical and deeply human — an invitation to understand yourself and others with more compassion and awareness Connect With Ro Elliott:  https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott [https://www.musathewild.com/] Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949] To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways [https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways] If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories] The Broken & Beautiful  [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/]Website [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/] Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders [https://stephenrsanders.com/] Music Promoted by Envato [https://elements.envato.com/] Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network [https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410] - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 4 - From Shame to Wholeness w/ Daniel Herron

In this final conversation, Daniel and Patria move beyond awareness into integration. They explore what it actually looks like to live from a grounded sense of identity rather than from shame, performance, or fragmentation. Together, they discuss compassion, curiosity, safety, regulation, and the healing power of being truly seen. Daniel reflects on how survival mechanisms often develop alongside our deepest gifts, and how healing untangles those gifts from fear, shame, and self-protection. This episode is ultimately about wholeness — not becoming someone new, but returning to who you were before shame convinced you to hide. If you’ve spent years trying to earn your worth, this conversation offers another path: grounded identity, authentic connection, and the freedom to fully inhabit your own life.  In This Episode * What grounded identity actually means * Why compassion and curiosity are transformative * The role of safety in healing * Authenticity versus performance * How gifts emerge through healing * Moving from fragmentation toward wholeness Connect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ [https://www.musathewild.com/] Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949] To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways [https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways] If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories] The Broken & Beautiful  [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/]Website [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/] Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders [https://stephenrsanders.com/] Music Promoted by Envato [https://elements.envato.com/] Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network [https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410] - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 3 - Reclaiming What Shame Buried w/ Daniel Herron

Many people grow up believing their emotions, sensitivity, curiosity, or instincts are “too much.” In this episode, Daniel and Patria explore what it looks like to reclaim the very parts of ourselves that shame taught us to bury. Daniel shares the powerful shift from seeing himself as destructive to understanding himself as dangerous — not harmful, but no longer easily controlled by systems built on fear and conformity. Together, they unpack attachment, authenticity, emotional regulation, and why systems often react strongly to people who threaten the status quo simply by being fully themselves. This conversation offers a hopeful reframe for listeners who’ve spent years trying to shrink themselves to stay connected: maybe the traits you learned to fear are actually connected to your deepest gifts. In This Episode * The difference between “wild” and “destructive” * Attachment vs. authenticity * Emotional regulation and dysregulation * Why systems label people as “too much” * Reclaiming instinct, emotion, and intuition * The connection between shame and control Connect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ [https://www.musathewild.com/] Resources & Announcements Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949] To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways [https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways] If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories] The Broken & Beautiful  [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/]Website [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/] Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders [https://stephenrsanders.com/] Music Promoted by Envato [https://elements.envato.com/] Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network [https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410] - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 2 - The Stories That Keep Shame Alive w/ Daniel Herron (Re-Release)

Shame rarely survives alone. In this episode, Daniel and Patria explore the narratives, secrecy, and systems that protect shame from ever being questioned. They unpack how family stories, cultural expectations, and relational patterns reinforce identities that were formed long ago — often without our awareness. Daniel shares the painful realization that decades later, his “wild child” narrative was still being passed down through his extended family. Together, they discuss how narratives become embedded in systems, how secrecy develops as a survival strategy, and why so many people organize their lives around avoiding exposure, rejection, or disconnection. This conversation also begins turning toward healing: what happens when compassion, curiosity, and safe relationships begin disrupting the old story? What if the narrative you inherited was never the full truth about who you are? In This Episode * How shame narratives become generational * Secrecy as a survival strategy * Why systems resist change * The relationship between shame and belonging * Identity fragmentation and moral injury * The first steps toward challenging old narratives Connect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ [https://www.musathewild.com/] Resources & Announcements Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949] To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways [https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways] If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories] The Broken & Beautiful  [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/]Website [https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/] Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders [https://stephenrsanders.com/] Music Promoted by Envato [https://elements.envato.com/] Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network [https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410] - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.