Rising From Shame

What if healing isn't about fixing the past, but choosing what moves forward through you? After an unforgettable journey to Costa Rica—following her mother's 91st birthday, her oldest son's college graduation, the emotional challenge of moving her mother into assisted living, and navigating family conflict—Nadia returns with one life-changing question: What energy will I choose to live in now? In...

What if healing isn't about fixing the past, but choosing what moves forward through you? After an unforgettable journey to Costa Rica—following her mother's 91st birthday, her oldest son's college graduation, the emotional challenge of moving her mother into assisted living, and navigating family conflict—Nadia returns with one life-changing question: What energy will I choose to live in now? In...

What if healing isn't about fixing the past, but choosing what moves forward through you? After an unforgettable journey to Costa Rica—following her mother's 91st birthday, her oldest son's college graduation, the emotional challenge of moving her mother into assisted living, and navigating family conflict—Nadia returns with one life-changing question: What energy will I choose to live in now? In...

This week's episode is a celebration of DIEGO! I share the story of how I came to know him long before he became my son. From a near-death experience where I encountered an infinite field of light and countless souls… to the moment I discovered I was pregnant… to now watching him graduate and step into a Master’s program in Astrophysics—this episode is about recognizing the soul of your child beyo...

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Nadia explores the heart of where true awareness begins—within the home, within our relationships, and within ourselves. In this solo episode, Nadia share's two letters written to her sons—words that unexpectedly became the chapter titles of her memoir, Home Is Within You. The first letter shares a mother's experience and steadfast belief in uncovering a...

In this heart-centered conversation, I sit down with Lisa Ramirez—attorney, mother, and candidate for California’s 40th Congressional District—to explore what it truly means to stand in your truth and lead from love. We talk about the beautiful overlap of motherhood, career, and service, and how she stays grounded in high-pressure environments without losing her center. Through the lens of The Sha...

In this heart-centered conversation, I sit down with Lisa Ramirez—attorney, mother, and candidate for California’s 40th Congressional District—to explore what it truly means to stand in your truth and lead from love. We talk about the beautiful overlap of motherhood, career, and service, and how she stays grounded in high-pressure environments without losing her center. Through the lens of The Sha...

What does it take to come home to yourself after a lifetime of running? In this deeply honest and moving conversation, James Hatch shares journey through fear, shame, emptiness, and addiction—to finding self-love, sobriety, and genuine human connection. James opens up about the weight he carried and the turning points that began to shift everything - from moving city to city in search of peace tha...

What if shame isn’t something to fix…but something to transform? In this deeply personal episode, I introduce the Shame Shifter Method™—a heart-centered approach to turning shame-based triggers into clarity, connection, and inner peace. This episode is for those living in the in-between…The ones who are holding their own life—while also holding a parent’s life inside it. Not fully a “caretaker”…bu...

At the time of this recording, Tuesday, April 21, 2026: Today is my 55th birthday… and instead of fearing age or looking back with regret, I’m choosing to use the day. In this solo episode, I reflect on a lifelong pattern I didn’t even realize I was building—choosing love over fear and judgment, one moment at a time. It didn't happen overnight. In fact, it happened because of and through a lot of...

Please CHECK OUT Part 1 of Bryan Blackmon's interview if you haven't done so already.  In this episode, Nadia engages in a deeply intimate conversation with the HERO AMONG US, Bryan Blackmon. This is not your typical Q & A chat. Bryan allows himself to courageously explore the deep inner truths that drove his life into addiction, crime, and nearly losing his life in Texas to a transformed and purp...

Is he just an average guy… or a hero among us? In this deeply human and inspiring conversation, Bryan Blackmon shares his powerful journey from addiction and jail in Texas to a transformed life in California. What unfolds is not just a story of recovery—but one of unexpected grace, resilience, and connection. Bryan opens up about the कठिन realities of addiction, the turning points that led him tow...

What does it really mean to love… when it hurts? In this deeply personal episode, I share the raw and honest reality of caring for my 90 year old mother and her ailing conditions and cognitive deficits —what it asks of me as a daughter, a mother, and a woman trying to hold it all together. This is a conversation about sacrifice…about anger…about the grief of watching someone you love slip away—and...

This episode is a reminder that YOU WERE BORN TO BE LOVED! That we never have to stay in a place of feeling broken, but can choose the path HOME WITHIN to our truest selves today, everyday, no matter what.  In this episode Melanie Taylor shares how, on her own journey of healing, she came to understand that shame is not a character defect, but a false belief of unlovability developed when vulnerab...

Circumstances change. Seasons of life rise and fall. And sometimes when we’re in the middle of challenging times, or a painful moment, it can feel like it will never pass. This episode is a gentle reminder of the truth of impermanence—that whatever you are facing right now is not the whole story of who you are, and it will not last forever. When our minds are loud with fear, shame, or despair, the...

In this episode, Nadia chats with Jennifer Schrappe, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with extensive experience in trauma recovery and mental health empowering individuals to overcome the challenges of trauma, anxiety, and emotional blocks that can deeply impact personal and relational well-being. This episode is both deeply personal and therapeutically powerful, including a dive into Je...

"A Soul Statement is no ordinary affirmation. Rather, it is a present-time reminder of what is true, good, and resourceful about yourself, which creates greater emotional coherence," Corey Lyon Folsom. Are you ready to make small shifts within that could produce outsized benefits in life and love outside you? In this episode, Nadia explores how to create meaningful and nurturing relationships usin...

Rising from shame isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about remembering who you are beneath the stories, the past, and the survival patterns that once kept you safe. In this episode, we explore what shame really is, how it lives in the body and mind, and the ways it once shaped our responses—hiding, numbing, striving, or self-abandoning. I share how my relationship with shame has changed over time, a...

What comes to mind when you hear the words collision course? Maybe you picture two cars hurtling toward impact. Or maybe your mind drifts upward—far beyond our atmosphere—where entire star systems move through space, drawn by gravity, destined to meet. Out there in the vastness of the cosmos, collisions aren’t accidents. They are part of creation itself. When stars collide, they don’t simply destr...

Feeling stuck or scattered? Let's realign your space and energy with Intuitive Design Coach Annette Farha, Founder of A Design Discovery, and author of "Finding My Way Home." She helps visonaries align their space and energy with their truth, desires, and next personal evolution. In this episode Annette shares her personal journey as well as guides Nadia through potential home and work space chang...

Sometimes we have to experience the ditch a few times until we feel ready to climb the mountain. Sometimes we have to feel the pain to free ourselves of it! In this episode, Nadia and special guest Karen Robinson, Host of Heal Thrive Dream Podcast, trauma expert, and holistic healer, engage in a discussion about how to start the path of trauma healing and learning to reject internal accusations of...

Sometimes we’re told that pain is here to make us stronger, tougher, or to push us into making big changes. And while all of that can be true, it isn’t always the point. In this episode, we explore the moments when pain becomes so intense, so unrelenting, that we reach an inner precipice—where fixing, reframing, or powering through no longer works. And unexpectedly, that’s where something else ope...

This episode is an invitation to fall back in love with yourself and the world. Holly Erin Copeland dives into the process of inner rewilding with Nadia - reconnecting to the vast intelligence of our universe and discovering how infinitely interconnected our beings are. Weaving science with soul and practical with mythical, her new book "INNER REWILDING, A Scientists Journey Into Being," is a deep...

As we step into a new year, this episode is an invitation to slow down and listen to the quiet reminders of your soul calling you inward. We explore what it means to choose the spiritual path, rise above the noise of the mind, and gently release the grip of shame. When we learn to witness our thoughts rather than be ruled by them, the door to the light within us opens. In that rising, pain and dar...

The holidays often bring family patterns to the surface. In this short episode, I offer a quiet reminder from recovery: when we slow down and see the bigger picture, we create room for compassion, we empower our ability to respond rather than react.  Time isn’t linear—old wounds, present moments, and future healing can meet right here. Our parents often respond from what was never healed, and when...