The Healing Nexus

Edith Crigler came to this conversation after listening to The Little Girl in the Back Seat and recognizing the ways she had learned to measure her voice against the room she was in. She reflects on learning to pay attention to when it felt safe to speak, when it felt better to hold something back, and how easily those early ways of protecting ourselves can follow us into adulthood—even after the...

Some friendships end with a clear rupture. Others change more quietly. In this episode of The Healing Nexus , Lisa reflects on what it means to lose a friendship that once held history, intimacy, and a version of you that few other people knew. This is a conversation about what remains when a friendship is over: the memories, the inside jokes, the years that mattered, and the strange experience of...

Dr. Shaniqua Jones came to this conversation after listening to Girl, Sit Down and noticing that something in the episode had made her angry with herself. That feeling opened the door to a larger conversation about helping, fixing, and the instinct to take responsibility for making things better for the people we care about. We talk about what can sit underneath that impulse: care, competence, res...

Fall has a way of making change visible. In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa reflects on what it means to move through life with the same kind of attention we give the changing seasons. Not self-care as indulgence, but self-care as noticing: checking in with your body, being honest about your capacity, becoming more intentional with your yeses, and clearer with your no. This is a conversati...

Fourteen years after losing her son, Lisa looks back at the woman she was before everything changed. In the years since, she became an advocate, nonprofit founder, criminal justice reform leader, and the steward of a legacy built in her son’s name. But now she is asking a different question: what parts of herself did she set down while becoming the woman she needed to be? In this episode, Lisa ref...

What happens when the person you love is also the person whose choices have hurt, disappointed, or challenged you? In this episode of The Healing Nexus , Lisa sits down with Monique Tula for a conversation that began somewhere different than the guest conversations that came before it. After reading Lisa’s Substack essay, The Harder Forgiveness , Monique found herself thinking about her own relati...

There’s Something About Being in a Room Filled with Black Women In Episode 14, Lisa reflects on a recent gathering that reminded her just how much can be communicated between Black women without explanation—from a passing “Yep, that part” to an unfinished sentence everyone already knows how to complete. Through stories of house music, fabulous pants, shared cultural references, unexpected tenderne...

In this episode of The Healing Nexus , Lisa continues the conversation from Episode 2, The Strong Woman Is Tired , with Tasheena Cunningham-Rimmer. Tasheena reflects on the question that stayed with her most: What do I need? Together, they talk about what happens when being “the strong one” becomes more than something we do and starts to become who we believe we have to be. Their conversation expl...

What happens when something you once wanted—or thought you wanted—is no longer what you want? In this episode, Lisa reflects on a TikTok conversation sparked by coach Siobhan J. Middleton and a simple statement: “I got married because I was asked.” That sentence opens a larger conversation about being chosen, the lives women are taught to want, and what happens when the woman you are today wants s...

In this first Conversations Continued episode, Lisa sits down with Kristi to reflect on Episode 5, Becoming the Woman I Needed . Their conversation moves through what it means to belong to yourself, the lifelong work of releasing the need for external approval, and the reminder that valuing yourself cannot always come after caring for everyone else. Together, they explore how our circumstances and...

Inspired by the Roku Original series Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross , Lisa reflects on what it means to stop waiting for the right person, the right body, the right invitation, or the right moment to enjoy your life. From wearing the beautiful clothes to taking yourself to dinner, visiting the museum, buying the flowers, and creating pleasure in ordinary moments, this episode explores the w...

In this episode, Lisa reflects on the habit of stepping in, solving problems, and making ourselves useful before anyone has even asked. With humor and honesty, she explores the difference between helping and rescuing, the discomfort of watching people struggle, and what becomes possible when we trust others to navigate their own lives. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is pause, step back,...

In this conversation, Lisa reflects on what happens when the thing we survived becomes part of how we are seen, valued, and known. With care and honesty, she explores the complicated relationship between pain, identity, recognition, and healing—especially for Black women who have often been valued for what they carry, endure, or overcome. This is not a conversation about leaving our stories behind...

In this conversation from The Healing Nexus , Lisa reflects on what love can quietly teach us before we ever have language for it. Building from the previous reflection on voice and silence, she explores how love, responsibility, loyalty, and self-abandonment can become tangled over time. Listeners are invited to consider what they learned love required of them, and whether that version of love st...

In this episode of The Healing Nexus , Lisa opens the next movement of the conversation by returning to a childhood memory that shaped her early relationship with silence, voice, and self-protection. After exploring what it means to stay connected to ourselves through change, this episode begins asking where that disconnection may have first begun. Through the image of a little girl sitting quietl...

Who are you becoming? Not according to someone else's expectations, but according to what feels true for you now. In this episode of The Healing Nexus , we're exploring the quiet choices that shape our lives and what it means to become someone we can trust.

Before we move into the next chapter, let's pause for a moment. In this bonus episode of The Healing Nexus, we're reflecting on what we've uncovered together and why healing isn't a destination--it's a conversation we continue with ourselves, again and again.

Who told you that? Who taught you that your life had to look a certain way in order to be meaningful? In this episode of The Healing Nexus , we're exploring the stories we've inherited and the permission we have to question whether they still belong to us.

What has changed? Not just around you, but within you? In Episode 3 of The Healing Nexus , we're exploring the grief that can accompany life's transitions and what it means to make peace with who we are becoming.

The Healing Nexus is a gathering place for Black women navigating the ongoing process of living, evolving, and remaining connected to themselves along the way. Through thoughtful conversations and honest storytelling, this space makes room for the questions that often emerge as life changes us over time. In this trailer, you'll be introduced to The Healing Nexus and the spirit behind the conve...

What happens when the very thing you've been praised for becomes the thing that's weighing you down? In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa Daniels explores the hidden costs of strength and the expectations many women carry to hold everything together, often at the expense of themselves. Through reflection, storytelling, and honest conversation, she examines what happens when strength...

In the inaugural episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa Daniels reflects on the experiences that shaped her understanding of purpose, responsibility, loss, and connection. Through personal storytelling and honest reflection, she explores what it means to recognize that our lives are deeply connected to the lives of others and how that understanding can transform the way we move through the world. More...