The Weather in Our Home - How I Learned to Read Emotions Like Weather

The Weather in Our Home - How I Learned to Read Emotions Like Weather

In this episode I open the locked door to a memory that had been living deep within my nervous system. I speak of crossing the threshold of our house every day and immediately surveying the weather inside and determining how I needed to respond to keep my emotional self "safe"

Relief For Approval

Relief for Approval — When Being Needed Felt Like Being Loved The first time Lori remembers feeling relief because someone was pleased with her… she was four years old, sitting between her parents during a late-night argument, trying to make peace happen with tiny hands and a terrified nervous system. In this episode of ReMothered, Lori explores the roots of people pleasing, emotional hypervigilance, and the quiet addiction to approval that so many survivors of enmeshment and emotional instability carry into adulthood. This is an episode about: • learning to read rooms before reading books • becoming “easy” in order to feel safe • the hidden grief beneath being the fixer • performing love instead of receiving it • and what happens when survival starts erasing the self Raw, intimate, and deeply reflective, this episode traces the moment relief became confused with love — and the lifelong cost of that bargain. If this episode resonates with you, follow the podcast and share it with someone navigating healing, identity, nervous system recovery, or life after emotional survival mode. Follow & Connect: WarriorNation Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/warriornation365 [https://www.facebook.com/warriornation365] TikTok: @remotheredpodcast2 Music Credit: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!) https://uppbeat.io/t/west-valley-shakers/do-what-youre-supposed-to [https://uppbeat.io/t/west-valley-shakers/do-what-youre-supposed-to] License code: UELCGFYFCYSQF3DB Until next time… take gentle care of yourself. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

How Exile Became My Exit - A LIfe Update

"When my mother told me I was no longer welcome in her family, I didn't panic. I didn't plead. I felt free." I’m taking you into the heart of a "compliant dance" I performed for decades—the avoidance, the redirected conversations, and the crushing weight of being responsible for someone else’s emotional stability. But what happens when the "avoidance shuffle" stops and a single boundary leads to a total unraveling? In this episode, I share: * The Erosion: How the fake cancer, stolen money, and years of lies slowly weakened the hold she had on me. * The Boundary: That day in 2025 when I chose not to "rescue" or "fix," and the rage that followed. * Silence as Strength: How I learned that silence is a language that doesn't require self-betrayal. * The Weaponization of Identity: The moment control collided with truth, and identity was used as a weapon to shut the door. Being "cast out" is usually framed as a tragedy, but for me, it was a rebirth. This is for the survivors, the "too sensitive," and anyone currently standing in that strange space between grief and relief. Exiled. And released. Stay Tuned: Follow Re-Mothered as I continue to excavate the self that was buried for years.Community: You don’t have to walk this path alone. Join us at WarriorNation—a community for all types of healing. https://www.facebook.com/warriornation365⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/warriornation365] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Good One - The Kind of Love That Felt Safe

In this opening episode of season 2, I begin somewhere steady. With my grandfather. We called him Pa. He lived 89 years and in a life that held a lot of complexity, he was one of the few place that felt simple in the best way. Solid. Consistent. Safe. Pa didn't say more than he needed to. But what he showed me stayed. What it looked like to live with integrity. To be steady in who you are. To make the people around you feel like they matter. After losing him in March, I've foiund myself returning to those lessons in a new way. Because as I begin this season, one that moves into the deeper layers of my story...the patterns, the coping, the survival... I can see just how much that steadiness shaped me. And how much of it I'm still learning to give myself. This episode is a tribute. But it's also a starting point. Socials: https://www.facebook.com/warriornation365 [https://www.facebook.com/warriornation365] tiktok: @remotheredpodcast2 Music Credits: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/tyler-edwards/plain-and-the-valley License code: DSXDJKI30KMSSZ4C Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/peter-lainson/slow-dance License code: 3TBLHXTOCPAVSSUR Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/realizer/still-swimming License code: O7VBQV233PL7K5ZT ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Reckoning - When Truth Comes Knocking

What happens when the truth finally costs too much to carry?In the final episode of ReMothered Season One, Lori returns to the moment everything broke open—the discovery of the stolen $15,000 from the family farm. But this isn’t just a story about theft. It’s about the instant a daughter realizes she cannot keep protecting what is destroying her.This episode marks the internal shift—the quiet, seismic moment of dissociation from enmeshment. The realization: I am not a cohort. I cannot be complicit. It is the beginning of the end, even though walking away would take another twenty years.Through intimate storytelling, this episode explores narcissistic abuse, family loyalty, secrecy, and the long arc of estrangement. It is about how survival patterns form, why leaving takes time, and how clarity often arrives long before action is possible.If you’re navigating parental estrangement, recovering from narcissistic family dynamics, or drawn to indie podcasts that blend emotional truth with investigative storytelling, this season finale was made for you.Season One ends here—but the reckoning has only begun ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.