Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast

I almost let fear keep me out of the room. I'm fresh off the Podcast Summit in Alabama, and I have to be honest with you, I almost didn't go. My head was already picturing a room with over two thousand people in it and talking myself out of showing up before I even got there. But I went anyway. I traveled alone for the first time in a long time, and I stayed present, stayed regulated, didn...

I was invited onto Staci Speaks Hope, a podcast dedicated to healing the little girl within, and I left that conversation knowing it needed to live on this platform too. This is one of the most honest conversations I have ever had on record. We talk about what it really means to call a thing a thing. Why so many of us are still bound not because we have not prayed, not because we have not tried, b...

At 47, I had a revelation in therapy that cracked something wide open. I realized I am afraid of adults, and that fear traces all the way back to a childhood without safe people. No protected father. No shielding mother. Seven women who knew about the abuse and chose silence. In this solo episode I share how that wound became a survival strategy that has been quietly sabotaging my calling, my visi...

Welcome back to Speak 2 Heal through the Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast. This is Part Two of our conversation with survivor advocate, activist, and social justice clinician Ms. Regina Dyson. Last week we talked about why survivors stay silent when their abuser holds power. Today we go deeper. A landmark study spanning three decades just confirmed what sexual abuse survivors have been living their enti...

**TRIGGER WARNING** Discussions of Child Sexual Abuse. Episodes may contain graphic details. Hi! You didn’t land here by accident; this is divine alignment. Welcome to Journey 2 Free, where survivors heal out loud, shame is reassigned, and we awaken to our God-ordained purposes. What do you do when the person who hurt you is the person everyone else is celebrating? In this episode of Speak 2 Heal,...

You survived the abuse. But now you have to survive the healing. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, I sit down with intimacy and relationship coach Tammy Bodie to talk about what the manifestations of sexual trauma actually look like in everyday life, in your relationships, your intimacy, your parenting, your mental health, and your body. We are not talking in theory. We are talking from lived...

I went back to Jamaica to bury my uncle. I thought I was healed. I thought I was further along. And then I closed a bathroom door and fell completely apart. In this raw, unscripted episode of the Awaken 2 Purpose Podcast, I sit down with my co-host, activist, clinician, and survivor Ms. Regina Dyson, for one of the most honest conversations we've ever had about what healing actually looks like...

Have you ever thought you were okay, until something brought it all rushing back? In this very first solo episode, I'm sharing something raw, unfiltered, and still very fresh. I recently returned from Jamaica after attending two funerals, and walking back into the childhood homes where I was sexually abused as a child triggered something I wasn't prepared for. I've been in therapy. I&#...

What happens when the people who were supposed to protect you tell you to forgive and forget? In this raw, faith-rooted conversation, host Larissa sits down with survivor advocate Regina Dyton and co-host Candy to unpack what nobody tells you about healing after childhood sexual abuse, the grief you never knew had a name, the forgiveness you were forced to perform, and the shame that silence left...

What happens when the church teaches you how to worship but never teaches you how to heal? In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Larissa sits down with her sister-friend and fellow survivor Tammy Bodie, host of Sex Ed for Saints Podcast, for a testimony that will break you open and put you back together in the same breath. Tammy shares what it was like to be abused by multiple people across multip...

Some conversations are too heavy to carry alone, so we carry them together. In this episode of  Speak 2 Heal  on the  Awaken to Purpose Podcast , I sit down with someone who is not just my aunt, she is my fellow survivor. The same man who violated me as a child violated her too. For decades we both carried this in silence. We were threatened. We were told not to tell. We were made to believe that...

This is for the one who's been watching the headlines and feeling everything, and couldn't explain why. In this debut episode of Speak 2 Heal the honest, unfiltered segment of the Awaken to Purpose Podcast, host Larissa sits on the couch with two fellow survivors, Ms. Regina and Candy, for a raw, soul-level conversation about what's happening in our culture RIGHT NOW.  With vault files being relea...

Awakened 2 Purpose Intro | Breaking Silence, Reassigning Shame, Healing Forward After 4 years away, I'm back, not because I'm fearless, but because I fear staying silent more than I fear speaking up. I'm Larissa, founder of Journey 2 Free, survivor empowerment coach, and your host. This is the reintroduction you didn't know you needed. In this episode, I'm getting honest about...