Break The Cycles

🌙Episode Summary Alisha Sheri explores hyper-independence as a survival identity formed when the nervous system never felt safe relying on others due to repeated letdowns, betrayal, or unsafe childhood environments. She distinguishes healthy independence (capable, responsible, ambitious) from hyper-independence, where doing everything alone becomes the only way to feel safe, often leading to burn...

🌙Episode Summary Alisha Sheri hosts a solo episode of the Break the Cycles podcast about why nervous system regulation alone can still leave people feeling “off” and how the shift from awareness to alignment creates lasting change. Using a creek-crossing metaphor, she explains awareness as recognizing patterns and their origins—often in childhood and generational trauma—and alignment as taking un...

🌙 Episode Summary In this heartfelt episode of Break the Cycles, Alisha Sheri explores the many faces of grief and the profound impact loss can have on our emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Drawing from her own experiences with loss, Alisha discusses how grief extends beyond death and can include the loss of relationships, identities, expectations, and life transitions. She breaks do...

🌙 Episode Summary In this powerful episode of Break the Cycles Podcast, host Alisha Sheri sits down with Simone Swartz — author, mother, mental health advocate, and PTSD recovery coach. Simone shares her deeply personal journey of surviving sexual assault in the military and spending nearly 20 years living with undiagnosed PTSD before finding healing. Together, they explore the many faces of trau...

🌙Episode Summary Alisha Sheri explains anger as a protective nervous-system response shaped by emotionally unsafe or unpredictable childhood environments, where people learn to suppress emotions or explode, not because of personality but conditioning that can be rewired through awareness. She describes generational patterns in her own family: explosive, controlling anger on her father’s side and...

🌙 Episode Summary In this episode, I sit down with breathwork facilitator Eric Rosso to explore the power of the breath as a tool for healing, regulation, and transformation. We dive into how breathwork can access the subconscious, release stored trauma, and create profound emotional breakthroughs—without the use of substances. This conversation goes beyond breathwork. We unpack nervous system re...

🌙 Episode Summary In this episode, I sit down with fitness and nutrition coach Allison to have a deeper conversation about health—beyond just weight loss. We talk about how so many women start their fitness journey focused on appearance… but struggle to stay consistent because the real issue isn’t discipline—it’s patterns, mindset, and what we’ve been conditioned to believe about our bodies and h...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode, I sit down with Counsellor Shalina to explore the impact of growing up without a father figure—and how that experience shapes identity, relationships, and emotional patterns into adulthood. We talk about what fatherlessness really looks like beyond physical absence, including emotional wounds, attachment patterns, and the ways we learn to seek validation and safe...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode, I explore the generational patterns of alcohol use and how conditioning shapes our behaviors in ways we often don’t question. I share my perspective on how these patterns are inherited, normalized, and repeated until we bring awareness to them. This conversation is about more than alcohol—it’s about understanding the deeper neurological and emotional loops that k...

🌙 Episode Summary  In this episode of Break the Cycles , I dive into something that so many of us experience but don’t always understand—our patterns in relationships and what we’re actually attracted to. For a long time, I confused intensity with connection. I thought the emotional highs and lows, the chemistry, and the pull I felt toward certain people meant something deeper… but what I’ve come...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode of Break the Cycles , I explore the deep connection between our bodies and our emotional health. I share my personal journey of moving out of survival mode and into a place of awareness and gratitude, and how that shift changed the way I relate to my body. I open up about how my body was always communicating with me, even when I wasn’t listening, and how many of m...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode of Break the Cycles , I explore what healing really means and why it’s often misunderstood. Many people think healing is a feeling or a destination you arrive at, but through my own journey I’ve realized it’s actually a response to life’s challenges and the triggers we encounter along the way. I talk about how healing begins with awareness . That moment when you s...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode of Break the Cycles , I explore what expansion really means. Growth is not about striving harder or becoming someone new. It is about creating the internal space to hold more. I share how true expansion requires feeling safe within yourself. When your nervous system is regulated and grounded, you can actually receive the peace, love, clarity, and alignment you say...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode of Break the Cycles, I talk about something that’s often overlooked in healing conversations… nutrition, hydration, and movement. I share my personal journey with food, emotional eating, and how my lifestyle choices were directly connected to my emotional state. I open up about how I had to shift the way I viewed food, not as comfort or punishment, but as energy....

🌙 Episode Summary In this episode, I talk about the true foundation of healing, and that is self-care. Not the aesthetic version. Not the performative version. The real kind. The kind that regulates your nervous system and creates safety in your body so you can actually process, grow, and evolve. I share how many of us were conditioned to believe self-care is selfish, especially as women, mothers...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode, I explore how childhood experiences continue to shape our adult lives, especially in relationships, parenting, and self-worth. I talk openly about inner child healing and how unresolved wounds from early life can quietly influence how we react, love, and show up for our children. Through my own lived experiences, I share what it looks like to recognize, nurture,...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode, I share a personal revelation that changed the way I understand betrayal, intuition, and self-trust. What I realized wasn’t just that my intuition had been right all along. It was that I had learned to betray myself in order to survive. For a long time, I believed I was disconnected from my intuition. But the truth is, I wasn’t disconnected at all. I was self-aba...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode of Break the Cycles , I dive into what keeps us stuck in toxic patterns and generational cycles we didn’t consciously choose. I talk about how awareness is the gateway to healing and how many of the behaviors we struggle with are inherited, learned, or rooted in unhealed emotional wounds. I share personal reflections and practical tools I use in my own healing jou...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode, I explore the concept of refinement as a spiritual process of letting go of what no longer serves us. I share personal experiences of feeling disconnected from my true self and the journey of shedding old identities and patterns. Through reflection and faith, I discuss how refinement is not about loss but about making room for growth and real love. ✨Key Takeaway...

🌙Episode Summary In this episode, I explore the difference between isolation and solitude and how moments of silence often arrive as preparation, not punishment. I share how grief, loss, and separation can become powerful teachers on the path of healing and spiritual awakening. We talk about trusting divine timing, listening before reacting, and allowing isolation to transform into alignment with...

Episode 1: Breaking the Cycles Begins with Me In this first episode of Break the Cycles , I share my personal journey of healing, loss, and transformation — and the calling that led me to create this space. For years, I followed a path that looked right on paper but felt disconnected in my body and soul. Through career burnout, grief, toxic relationships, and deep inner child healing, I was brough...

Welcome to Break the Cycles . Break the Cycles is a podcast for career-driven women and mothers who are done surviving and ready to soften, heal, and rebuild the woman behind the titles. Hosted by intuitive coach and healer Alisha Sheri, this podcast explores healing childhood wounds, releasing toxic patterns, reconnecting with feminine energy, and rising into alignment with one’s highest self. Ea...