"All the Medicine is Inside You" with Deep Soul Awakenings

Beyond the Who: Coming Home to Her

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of abuse and childhood trauma. In this episode, Kendra shares the moment she stopped searching for who hurt her and began sitting with the inner child it happened to. A conversation about abuse, memory, and the radical shift from investigation to embodiment—choosing presence, protection, and compassion over needing all the answers.

A Reflection on Self-Ownership, Clear-Minded Living, and Boundaries

At a crossroads between familiarity and fulfillment, in this episode I unpack vivid dreams that tempt me back into old coping patterns, substances, chaos, and performative intimacy; just as I’m moving toward deeper commitment and cohabitation with my partner. This episode explores how the nervous system clings to what’s recognizable, even when it’s misaligned, and what it takes to feel fear without numbing it. I reflect on releasing the need for external validation, calling my energy back from unreciprocal spaces, and choosing sovereignty and boundaries over familiar chaos. This is a conversation about sobriety, intimacy, self-trust, and the courage to choose a life that actually feeds you. ✨ Familiar isn’t fulfillment.✨ Fear isn’t a stop sign.✨ Sovereignty is embodied.

"All the Medicine is Inside You" with Deep Soul Awakenings

Shared Episode: All the Medicine is Inside You (Originally aired on Deep Soul Awakenings) In this soul-nourishing shared episode, we’re bringing you a luminous conversation from Deep Soul Awakenings with Millie Franco—featuring none other than our very own Kendra Valentine of Embodied Badass. Together, Millie and Kendra explore a timeless truth: that all the healing, wisdom, and power we seek already lives within us. Through personal stories and intuitive insight, Kendra shares her journey of remembering, reclaiming, and trusting the medicine within her own body and spirit. This is a conversation about returning to ourselves—about listening more deeply, softening into truth, and awakening the healing that’s been there all along. It’s an invitation to reconnect with your inner knowing and walk your path with greater compassion and clarity. We’re honored to share this sacred dialogue with the Embodied Badass community. May it be a mirror, and a reminder: You are the medicine. #YouAreTheMedicine #DeepSoulAwakenings #EmbodiedHealing #SacredRemembering #InnerWisdom #DivineFeminineHealing #SpiritualEmpowerment #HealingJourney #EmbodiedBadass #BlackBirdSoulHealing

The Kind of Grief No One Talks About: Suicide, Shadows, and Soul Forgiveness

This episode honors the grief no one prepares you for—the kind that comes when someone you love dies by suicide, and you're left holding a thousand tangled threads of anger, love, guilt, and silence. I share a deeply personal story about someone I once held close—someone who hurt me, disappeared, and then left this world in a way that made the grief even messier. This isn’t a tidy conversation about death. It’s a raw eulogy for a soul connection that broke me open and taught me how to hold space for rage, for love, for forgiveness, and for the parts of us that don’t get to say goodbye the way we hoped. This is shadow work. This is ancestral work. This is about choosing to live when death is all around. And this is a love letter to anyone who has ever grieved someone complicated—and needed permission to feel it all. #GriefHealing #SuicideLossSupport #ShadowWork #SpiritualGrief #AncestralHealing #RawConversations #SoulAwakening #MentalHealthMatters #PodcastForHealing #GriefAndLove

Say Less, Listen More: The Shit No One Teaches You About Trauma

This isn’t your polished, packaged healing story. This is the real, gritty, gut-wrenching truth of surviving childhood sexual assault, and the long, complicated, non-linear path toward reclaiming your body, your voice, and your worth. I talk about how trauma shapes our patterns, why unsafe feels familiar, and what it actually means to hold space for someone in their pain. For survivors, for supporters, and for anyone ready to stop shaming and start listening—this one’s for you. #HealingOutLoud #TraumaSurvivor #StopTheShame #SayLessListenMore #SurvivorVoice #GritAndGraceHealing #EndRapeCulture #HoldSpaceNotJudgment #ListenToSurvivors #ReclaimYourStory