The Awakened Heart: A Podcast for Healing Women

BONUS PEP TALK: Stop the Performance and Choose YOU!!!

I go full rage mode about unsafe relationships and the quiet ways women get pressured into performing, especially sexually, to keep the peace. I draw a hard line between love and safety, and I am here to remind you that you can change your mind and walk away at ANY time! Work With Me Individually I offer trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women navigating: • Complex trauma • Late-diagnosed ADHD or autism • Nervous system dysregulation • Relational pattern healing If you’d prefer one-on-one support, book a free 15-minute consultation here: http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub [http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub] Good Music for Healing 🎵 **Divine Woman Playlist (Apple Music):** https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j] You’re not alone.  We’re healing together. Connect with me about this episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/fan_mail/new] Support the show [HTTPS://www.buymeacoffee.com/awakenedheartpod]

BONUS EPI: Shadow Work Tools For Sexual Trauma Healing

We name shadow work for what it really is: turning toward the parts of us that went underground after trauma, especially the rage, grief, and shame that were never allowed to exist out loud. I share practical, trauma-informed tools for nervous system safety, journaling, repair in parenting, and transforming sacred rage into fuel for healing.  • defining shadow work as integration, not darkness  • how unprocessed rage shows up as anxiety, depression, pain, shutdown, hypervigilance  • why the body’s freeze response is protection, not betrayal  • using rage as directed energy for boundaries, growth, and self-care  • parenting while healing, plus rupture and repair as a real practice  • creating a safe container before going inward, including the GLOW steps  • rage journaling to clear the surface, then asking what the anger protects  • writing letters to rage to hear its message without self-editing  • using tarot or oracle cards as a mirror for the unconscious  • separating facts from shame stories to challenge “I’m the problem” thinking  • building a morning ritual and using creativity to transform pain  Work With Me Individually I offer trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women navigating: • Complex trauma • Late-diagnosed ADHD or autism • Nervous system dysregulation • Relational pattern healing If you’d prefer one-on-one support, book a free 15-minute consultation here: http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub [http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub] Good Music for Healing 🎵 **Divine Woman Playlist (Apple Music):** https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j] Episodes Mentioned in this Episode Comparison Rage after Sexual Trauma https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19395493-comparison-rage-after-sexual-trauma [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19395493-comparison-rage-after-sexual-trauma] You’re not alone.  We’re healing together. Connect with me about this episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/fan_mail/new] Support the show [HTTPS://www.buymeacoffee.com/awakenedheartpod]

Comparison Rage after Sexual Trauma

I name comparison rage as the grief and fury that can sit underneath “I’m happy for them,” especially for trauma-experienced, neurodivergent women watching other lives look easy. I unpack where it shows up, why it makes sense in a survival-wired nervous system, and how to work with it without shame. • comparison rage as more than jealousy and why both love and rage can be true • how trauma and neurodivergence shape attachment, trust, and social fluency • support system gaps and why they are about starting conditions, not worth • relationship comparison and why calm can read as unsafe • body comfort after sexual trauma and the weight carried in the nervous system • career and workplace politics built for neurotypical brains • parenting while healing and the invisible labor of doing better • intimacy, touch, and the freeze response as survival wiring • medical system dismissal and the extra burden on neurodivergent women • practical tools: name it, journal it, grieve specifically, stop poking holes, build support on purpose Work With Me Individually I offer trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women navigating: • Complex trauma • Late-diagnosed ADHD or autism • Nervous system dysregulation • Relational pattern healing If you’d prefer one-on-one support, book a free 15-minute consultation here: http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub [http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub] Good Music for Healing 🎵 **Divine Woman Playlist (Apple Music):** https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j] You’re not alone.  We’re healing together. Connect with me about this episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/fan_mail/new] Support the show [HTTPS://www.buymeacoffee.com/awakenedheartpod]

BONUS EPI: Lilith And The Backlash Against Boundaries

I pick up Lilith’s story after her flight and name the brutal truth many of us meet after we finally say no: the backlash can rewrite us into the villain. I connect demonization to the trauma freeze response, then share ways to stay anchored in reality, regulate your nervous system, and keep your wings anyway.  • Lilith’s “no” followed by punishment and character assassination  • how boundary-setting triggers smear campaigns, exclusion, and silence  • the freeze response as protection and how backlash can reinforce it  • systems and equilibrium, why compliance becomes “load-bearing”  • grounding, co-regulation, and breathwork with longer exhales Work With Me Individually I offer trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women navigating: • Complex trauma • Late-diagnosed ADHD or autism • Nervous system dysregulation • Relational pattern healing If you’d prefer one-on-one support, book a free 15-minute consultation here: http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub [http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub] Good Music for Healing 🎵 **Divine Woman Playlist (Apple Music):** https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j] Episodes Mentioned in this Episode BONUS EPI: Lilith And The Power of No https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19327346-bonus-epi-lilith-and-the-power-of-no [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19327346-bonus-epi-lilith-and-the-power-of-no] You’re not alone.  We’re healing together. Connect with me about this episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/fan_mail/new] Support the show [HTTPS://www.buymeacoffee.com/awakenedheartpod]

Rage At Lost Years After Sexual Trauma And How To Reclaim Today

We name the rage of sexual trauma stealing years of your life, not as an abstract idea but as missed safety, missed support, and a body that learned to freeze. I walk through why the freeze response persists even after you understand it, and how we can use that fury as fuel to reclaim today on our own timeline. • the specific rage of “shoulda couldas” and stolen time • childhood theft as survival training disguised as growing up • body ownership stolen through violation and chronic mishandling • double theft of sexual trauma plus unsupported neurodivergence • masking, success, and instability happening at the same time • social timelines as arbitrary rules that ignore development and trauma Work With Me Individually I offer trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women navigating: • Complex trauma • Late-diagnosed ADHD or autism • Nervous system dysregulation • Relational pattern healing Schedule your free 15-minute consultation here: http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub [http://linktr.ee/EmpoweringWellnessHub] Good Music for Healing 🎵 **Divine Woman Playlist (Apple Music):** https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/divine-woman/pl.u-leyl096uMoD885j] Episodes Mentioned in this Episode Honoring the Losses & Heaviness after Sexual Trauma https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19093408-honoring-the-losses-heaviness-after-sexual-trauma [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/episodes/19093408-honoring-the-losses-heaviness-after-sexual-trauma] You’re not alone.  We’re healing together. Connect with me about this episode! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467345/fan_mail/new] Support the show [HTTPS://www.buymeacoffee.com/awakenedheartpod]