Ep. 61 Stop Numbing Your Emotions: How to Finally Feel and Heal With EFT Tapping with Sophia Graniela

Ep. 64 Healing, Play, and Prevention: Breaking the Cycle of Child Abuse with Rosalia Rivera

Show Notes: In this powerful episode of Healing Doesn't Have to Be Heavy, Angie Berrett sits down with child sexual abuse prevention specialist, educator, and advocate Rosalia Rivera for an eye-opening conversation about protecting children, breaking cycles of abuse, and creating a culture of consent. Rosalia shares her personal journey into advocacy, explaining how becoming a parent led her to confront her own family history of abuse and ultimately inspired her mission to educate parents about body safety, consent, and child protection. Together, Angie and Rosalia explore the critical role education plays in preventing abuse, discussing why most perpetrators are known and trusted by children rather than strangers, and how parents can empower their children through age-appropriate conversations, boundary-setting, and role-play. The conversation also highlights the connection between healing, play, and empowerment. Angie shares how play and movement helped her reconnect with her voice and sense of safety after surviving childhood abuse, while Rosalia explains how playful role-playing exercises can help children practice using their voices, setting boundaries, and responding confidently when something feels wrong. The episode tackles difficult but important topics, including rape culture, the impact of technology and AI on consent and bodily autonomy, and the urgent need for greater awareness and prevention efforts. Most importantly, Rosalia offers hope, emphasizing that research shows up to 90% of child sexual abuse can be prevented through education. Listeners will walk away with practical insights, renewed empowerment, and valuable resources to help create safer environments for children while supporting their own healing journeys. This is a conversation about courage, prevention, advocacy, and the transformative power of giving both children and adults the tools to reclaim their voices. Bio: Rosalia Rivera is a consent and child sexual abuse prevention specialist and educator as well as a child rights advocate. She is co-founder of the BRAVE Movement, a global survivor-led organization working to end childhood sexual violence worldwide, and founder of CONSENTparenting™, an online platform that educates parents about child sexual abuse and evidence-based prevention strategies. To connect with our guest, click on the links below: Instagram:  @consentparenting 🎁Free access to my Grooming Prevention Masterclass  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/irnxl2r8fkcdk4009akgc/AMB1Iow_tgpIkLzI0YDGvAY?rlkey=5u0ndpr416jyh6i7d1fw3ksf5&e=1&st=qijrkjlz&dl=0 [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/irnxl2r8fkcdk4009akgc/AMB1Iow_tgpIkLzI0YDGvAY?rlkey=5u0ndpr416jyh6i7d1fw3ksf5&e=1&st=qijrkjlz&dl=0] Website:  www.consentparenting.com [https://www.consentparenting.com/] Connect with me: Website:  https://angieberrettmovement.com/ [https://angieberrettmovement.com/] Instagram:  https://Instagram.com/angieberrettmovement  [https://instagram.com/angieberrettmovement] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/  [https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/] YouTube:    https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement  [https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement] LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/  [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/] TikTok:       https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1 [https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1] 🎁Grab your Free 5 Minute Freak Out Fix 👉https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix [https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix]

Ep. 63 Why Healing Begins When You Finally Find the Words with Megan Rodriguez

Show Notes: In this episode of Healing Doesn't Have to Be Heavy, Angie sits down with Megan Rodriguez for an honest conversation about trauma, healing, reclaiming your voice, and learning that healing does not have to stay rooted in darkness forever. Megan shares her journey through a neglectful childhood and an abusive marriage, opening up about how emotional and verbal abuse shaped her sense of self and caused her to lose her voice. Together, Angie and Megan explore the hidden impact of trauma, discussing how the deepest wounds are often not just what happened to us, but the lack of support we had while navigating those experiences. Megan reveals a powerful realization that transformed her healing journey when she learned to identify her overwhelming emotional pain as grief, giving language to something that had previously felt impossible to describe. The conversation also dives into body based healing, somatic practices, intuitive listening, ritual work, and the importance of finding words, sounds, or sensory experiences that help survivors express what often feels inexpressible. This episode offers an honest look at healing, connection, and the power of finding safe people who can sit with you in your darkness without trying to fix or change it. If you have ever struggled to explain what you are feeling, felt isolated in your healing journey, or wondered if your voice could ever return, this episode offers understanding, hope, and a reminder that healing can create space for lightness, connection, and possibility. Bio: I’m Megan, the woman behind Wayfinding Rituals. In my young adult life, I spent 18 years in an abusive marriage, slowly learning to swallow my own needs and disappear from myself. Leaving that relationship taught me more about grief than I had words for, and the day I finally walked away, my body collapsed under the weight of everything I’d been holding. For a long time, I didn’t have language for what I was feeling. I only knew I wanted to heal whatever it was. I tried almost every modality and therapy I could find, read all the books, and did the “right” things, but nothing truly named what I was living through. It wasn’t until my soul-dog, Gaya, died in 2024, after carrying me through so much of my former life, that I finally recognized the shape of what I’d been feeling all along. It finally had a name: grief. Wayfinding Rituals grew out of that recognition. My work is rooted in lived experience, not formal credentials. I hold space for women walking with nameless emotions, grief that doesn’t always look like grief, anger and rage, deep sorrow, and even the strange tenderness of unexpected joy. My role is to witness, listen beneath the surface, and respond intuitively to what emerges, so you don’t have to move through it all alone. In ritual, I pay attention to what isn’t being said as much as what is. I work slowly and gently, creating spaces that feel like coming home to someone who has been waiting for you, calm, warm, and steady enough to hold whatever arrives. My hope is that being with me gives you permission to be exactly who you are, to feel what you actually feel, and to begin finding your own way through grief and change with more honesty and care. To connect with our guest, click on the links below: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/be_excellent1  [https://www.instagram.com/be_excellent1] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/beexcellentcollection  [https://www.facebook.com/beexcellentcollection] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@beexcellentcollection [https://www.tiktok.com/@beexcellentcollection] Website:  http://www.beexcellent.biz [http://www.beexcellent.biz] Connect with me: Website:  https://angieberrettmovement.com/ [https://angieberrettmovement.com/] Instagram:  https://Instagram.com/angieberrettmovement  [https://instagram.com/angieberrettmovement] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/  [https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/] YouTube:    https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement  [https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement] LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/  [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/] TikTok:       https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1 [https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1] 🎁Grab your Free 5 Minute Freak Out Fix 👉https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix [https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix]

Ep. 62 Bottom-Up Healing: How Yoga Therapy Targets the Root of Trauma in Your Nervous System

Show Notes 🚨Trigger Warning This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, PTSD, addiction, workplace bullying, and surviving house fires. Please take care of yourself while listening. Host Angie Berrett sits down with Australian yoga therapist and trauma survivor Liz Albanis for a rich conversation about healing trauma through body-based practices. Liz shares her personal journey from a childhood PTSD diagnosis following sexual abuse, to workplace bullying, two separate house fires, and misdiagnosis with bipolar disorder and how discovering yoga in 2011 became a turning point in her recovery. Together, Angie and Liz break down why talk therapy alone often isn't enough, how trauma lives in the body's fascia and muscles, and which yoga practices can help and which ones can actually make things worse. Bio: Liz Albanis is currently completing (nearly finished) her two-year studies to become qualified yoga therapist in Australia and internationally with the BioMedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation (BIYOME) in Australia. Further enhancing her ability to support individuals in their mental and physical well-beShe is a registered senior yoga teacher with Yoga Australia. She did her first 200 hour training with Byron Yoga Centre in 2012 and completed her 500 hours with them in 2013. She has also completed a second 200 hour with Power Living in 2020 (Power Vinyasa) She has also trained with several world renowned teachers such as, Bernie Clark, Dr Timothy McCall, Amy Weintraub, Judith Hanson Lasater, Sarah Powers, Jo Phee and online with Paul Grilley.  However she is forever a student and hers students have been her best teachers. She also has experience teaching a variety of styles (general Hatha, Bikram) vinyasa flow, yin, myo-yin, restorative yoga and Lifeforce Yoga). She has completed trainings here in Australia, Bali (Indonesia), Canada and the USA.  She is a certified Roll Model Instructor with Yoga Tune-Up. She is also a qualified personal trainer through her Diploma of Fitness. Plus a qualified Pilates (mat and equipment) and Barre Instructor. further enhancing her ability to support individuals in their mental and physical well-being. To connect with our guest, click on the links below: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lizalbaniswellnessau  [https://www.instagram.com/lizalbaniswellnessau] YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@lizalbaniswellnessau [https://www.youtube.com/@lizalbaniswellnessau] Website:  https://www.lizalbaniswellness.com.au/ [https://www.lizalbaniswellness.com.au/] 🎁 Liz's Free Bee Breath Guide — https://www.lizalbaniswellness.com.au/freebies [https://www.lizalbaniswellness.com.au/freebies]  Connect with me: Website:  https://angieberrettmovement.com/ [https://angieberrettmovement.com/] Instagram:  https://Instagram.com/angieberrettmovement  [https://instagram.com/angieberrettmovement] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/  [https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/] YouTube:    https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement  [https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement] LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/  [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/] TikTok:       https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1 [https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1] 🎁Grab your Free 5 Minute Freak Out Fix 👉https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix [https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix]

Ep. 61 Stop Numbing Your Emotions: How to Finally Feel and Heal With EFT Tapping with Sophia Graniela

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of trauma, substance abuse, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. Please take care of yourself and return when you feel ready. Show Notes: In this episode of Healing Doesn’t Have to be Heavy, Host Angie Berrett, trauma-informed coach, registered nurse, play expert, and child abuse survivor, sits down with Sophia Graniela,  sobriety advocate, EFT tapping practitioner, and host of the Her Journey Home podcast. Sophia shares her raw, powerful story of growing up surrounded by alcoholism and loss, spending 15 years numbing her pain through substances and toxic relationships, and the moment at 29 she decided to choose herself. Together, Angie and Sophia explore how EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping can help women release emotional blocks, reclaim their authentic voice, and come home to themselves. Bio: Sophia Noelle Graniela is an EFT practitioner, self-expression and podcast guide, and the host of Her Journey Home. After years of hiding her voice and trying to fit in, sobriety and personal transformation led her to start sharing her story online and launching her podcast. To connect with our guest, click on the links below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiagraniela/ Podcast: Her Journey Home — available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Website:  www.herjourneyhomeco.com [http://www.herjourneyhomeco.com]  🎁 Sofia's Free Gift —join my Mic Drop circles every other Sunday- live EFT tapping to practice being witnessed & sharing their story in a safe & welcoming environment   Mic Drop Circle [https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsophiagraniela.myflodesk.com%2Fherjourneyhome%3Futm_source%3Dig%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_content%3Dlink_in_bio%26fbclid%3DPAZnRzaARu7UFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaeCwGov9qw4TI7nLmexAfNY5vaU6N6JcmgaEeOsvEJ2BWBfQaMuCC8jlm_wiw_aem_aca7m0WqdgPGGxvyhV9BKQ&e=AUAYB4CTdBZD4zf_TwyFNi2utJ6_rF2Fs47u8G8tiO2rNnvY_9v6XKC24YJkTAyXivX0rEMK19Y9MLkIMe89Dl3urBviX6O7BQY6X6a1ZltyotlTDweetmdlMg]  Connect with me: Website:  https://angieberrettmovement.com/ [https://angieberrettmovement.com/] Instagram:  https://Instagram.com/angieberrettmovement  [https://instagram.com/angieberrettmovement] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/  [https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/] YouTube:    https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement  [https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement] LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/  [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/] TikTok:       https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1 [https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1] 🎁Grab your Free 5 Minute Freak Out Fix 👉https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix [https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix]

Ep. 60 🎉I’m Back for Season 2! How to Move Forward When Trauma Triggers Hit Hard

Show Notes: Season 2 kicks off with a powerful and deeply personal solo episode from Angie Berrett, trauma-informed coach, registered nurse, and survivor. In this raw and honest conversation, Angie shares what happened behind the scenes when she stepped away from the podcast and hit a difficult emotional low triggered by global events (particularly the Epstein Files) and past trauma. She opens up about navigating functional freeze, confronting subconscious beliefs, and rebuilding from a place of compassion instead of shame. This episode is both a reality check and a lifeline for anyone who feels stuck, overwhelmed, or like they “should be further along” in their healing journey. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: * Why trauma healing is not linear and why setbacks are part of growth * What “functional freeze” is and how it silently impacts your daily life * How triggers can reveal hidden subconscious beliefs that are holding you back * The dangerous belief that suffering equals worth and how to break it * Simple, practical ways to start moving forward when you feel stuck * How small physical movement can help regulate your nervous system * A unique strategy to re-engage your brain without forcing productivity * Why self-compassion is essential for long-term healing Connect with me: Website:  https://angieberrettmovement.com/ [https://angieberrettmovement.com/] Instagram:  https://Instagram.com/angieberrettmovement  [https://instagram.com/angieberrettmovement] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/  [https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/] YouTube:    https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement  [https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement] LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/  [https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/] TikTok:       https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1 [https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1] 🎁Grab your Free 5 Minute Freak Out Fix [https://angieberrettmovement.ac-page.com/free-short-movement-sequence-for-when-you-are-overwhelmed]  👉https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix [https://angie-berrett-movement.mykajabi.com/5-MinuteFreakOutFix]