222. Bravery at Home First, Then Freedom

222. Bravery at Home First, Then Freedom

Some of the truest things get said when we're not trying to say them well. In the first episode of the journal episodes, Mechelle shares two entries written almost eight years apart — one from September 2017, one from March 2025. On the surface, they seem different. One is a quiet question asked of something larger than herself. The other is a raw wrestling with fear — her own and her family's — in a world that felt like it was unraveling. But when placed side by side, they tell one continuous story. The 2025 entry asks the hard question: How do I stay present for the people I love without being consumed by what frightens them? It sits with the weight of watching fear live in the bodies of the people closest to you — and arrives at a reframe that is both simple and demanding. Bravery, real bravery, points inward first. Your inner home is where the work begins. And tending it is one of the most generous things you can offer the people you love. The 2017 entry exhales into something softer. A question about miracles. A voice that answers plainly. A reminder that you were never doing any of this alone — and that what you've been searching the horizon for may have already been speaking to you in quiet, ordinary language, waiting for you to slow down enough to hear it. This episode is for anyone who has ever felt the weight of holding themselves together while also trying to hold the people they love. For anyone who has stood at the edge of their own effort and wondered if it was enough. For anyone who is learning — slowly, imperfectly — to let themselves be met. https://www.youtube.com/@ruptureeverafter [https://www.youtube.com/@ruptureeverafter] In this episode: * Why tending your inner home is the most generous act you can offer others * What it really means when crisis feels like the permanent condition * The difference between asking for a miracle and learning to receive one * Three integration questions to carry into your week Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697%20%E2%81%A0] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork] On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ [https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/%E2%81%A0] Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork] Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only Keywords: home, bravery, inner work, fear, family anxiety, political anxiety, nervous system regulation, miracles, spiritual journaling, journal entries, personal growth, emotional regulation, IFS, wholeness, self-compassion, regulated presence, crisis, somatic healing, wellness podcast, women's wellness, holistic healing, The Wholeness Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

221. Let It Grow You: Finding Your Footing During Transition

There's a version of transition we talk about — the before and after, the glow-up, the lesson learned. This episode isn't that one. This is about the middle. The part where the old thing is gone but the new thing hasn't arrived yet. The part where you don't quite know who you are on the other side, and growth doesn't always feel like growth. In this episode, Mechelle explores the real difference between change and transition — and why getting that distinction right changes everything. Drawing on the work of author and organizational consultant William Bridges, she walks through the three phases most transitions move through: the ending, the neutral zone, and the new beginning — and why the middle is the place we most need to stop rushing through. She also gets personal. About her own season of significant transition, about the pressure to have meaning before the wound is finished being a wound, and about the moment she realized she had built something beautiful — and also built it in a way that quietly skirted her own unfinished grief. This episode is for anyone in the disorienting in-between. You'll walk away with something real to practice — not a way to speed things up, but a way to finally let them move. In this episode: * Why change and transition are not the same thing * The three phases of transition (and the one we most want to skip) * What it costs to rush into meaning before you've finished feeling * Three practices for letting a transition actually grow you * A personal story about mastermind groups, live events, old wounds, and a sound bath that changed everything LIVE Online Class https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/difficult-people [https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/difficult-people] Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697%20%E2%81%A0] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork] On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ [https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/%E2%81%A0] Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork] Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

220. I Was Never Broken: Lisa Hartle Rewrote Her Bone Beliefs and Broke Generational Chains

Some of the heaviest things we carry aren't even ours — they were handed down so quietly we never noticed. In this episode, Mechelle sits down with Lisa Hartle, a neurofeedback practitioner, coach, and author of I Was Never Broken [https://amzn.to/4dxY51O], to talk about what happens when your body finally stops letting you outrun your past. Lisa shares how a perfect storm — empty nesting, a cross-state move, a job she hated, and anxiety she'd never experienced before — cracked open five memories she'd spent a lifetime shoving and stuffing. What followed was one of the most honest healing journeys you'll hear: writing 20 ways each painful experience had blessed her life, going back as her adult self to sit with a three-year-old girl who had taken on shame that was never hers, and ultimately breaking a generational chain of addiction and silence that had run through her family for decades. This conversation covers bone beliefs, the "sonic boom" of delayed trauma, epigenetics, IFS, and why true gratitude can't be rushed to — it has to be earned through the journey. If you've ever thought, "That was a long time ago, I should be over it" — this one's for you. I Was Never Broken is available on Amazon. [https://amzn.to/4dxY51O] Instagram Lisa Hartle Coaching [https://www.instagram.com/lisahartlecoaching?igsh=anJiNjF1cXVpMG9o]  Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697%20%E2%81%A0] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork] On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ [https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/%E2%81%A0] Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork] Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

219. Your Emotions Are the Medicine with Marie Manuchehri

What if everything your body is experiencing right now started somewhere else — in your energy field, months or even years ago? This week, Mechelle sits down with Marie Manuchehri, former oncology nurse turned energy healer and intuitive, whose gifts first showed up at the bedside in the most unexpected way. Marie walks us through the energetic roots of physical health, the emotional component behind every chakra, and why the most powerful medicine you have access to right now might be something as simple as swinging on a swing. They also explore the difference between intuition and the brain (hint: only one of them is for putting IKEA furniture together), what it actually means to feel safe on Earth, and why healers especially need to spend more time in their own magnificence. Marie's warmth and clarity make the invisible world feel wonderfully close — and completely workable. Connect with Marie https://energyintuitive.com/ [https://energyintuitive.com/] Youtube Channel and Podcast [https://www.youtube.com/@mariemanuchehri] Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697%20%E2%81%A0] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork] On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ [https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/%E2%81%A0] Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork] Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only Keywords energy healing, energy medicine, chakras and health, chakra emotional meaning, emotions and physical health, energetic roots of illness, energy field, auric field, chakra organs emotions, self-love immune system, second chakra joy, first chakra safety, throat chakra thyroid, energy before physical symptoms, everything happens energetically first,  intuition vs mind, trusting your intuition, difference between intuition and brain, how to recognize intuition, calm voice vs critical mind, mediumship, communicating with departed loved ones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

218. Grief is a Guide: Regulation First, Everything Else Second with Cheyenne Hawks

What starts as a conversation about meal plans quickly becomes something much deeper — a story about grief, betrayal, the wisdom stored in the body, and what it actually means to heal from the ground up. In this episode, Mechelle sits down with Cheyenne Hawks, a gifted wellness coach who built her practice from handwritten macro spreadsheets and a yoga mat in Laguna Beach into a full coaching business rooted in the belief that food is never just about food. They talk about growing up in the era of Slim-Fast and calorie obsession, the client whose 100-pound transformation revealed everything about where the real work lives, and the business partnership that ended without a conversation — and why that loss, as painful as it was, sent her back to herself. Together, they explore what nervous system regulation actually feels like in the body, why we can't do deep healing from a dysregulated place, and how grief — layered and relentless — can either close us down or crack us wide open. This one is tender, honest, and full of the kind of hard-won wisdom that only comes from living it. Connect with Cheyenne https://heartofwellness.com/ [https://heartofwellness.com/] https://www.instagram.com/cheyennehawks_/ [https://www.instagram.com/cheyennehawks_/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]