Inner Sanctuary: The Journey Home

It's Not Safe to Be Me: Why We Look Outside Ourselves for Safety What if the reason it doesn't feel safe to be yourself has less to do with fear... and more to do with where you've learned to look for safety? In this episode, I share one of the most profound realizations of my life. What began as pressure to expand my business after becoming a mother slowly revealed something I couldn&...

What if birth is a mirror that shows us how we meet life itself? In this episode, I share a personal pregnancy and birth story. Birth revealed the ways I was moving through life that I couldn’t yet see. It illuminated patterns I had been living from and opened a deeper level of honesty and clarity. It connected me with versions of myself I hadn’t known were there. More than a story about birth, th...

In this episode, Raquel explores the liminal space. The in-between season where an old identity, way of life, or foundation begins to dissolve before the next chapter has fully emerged. Through stories of family health challenges, marriage, grief, career shifts, pregnancy, and profound internal reorientation, she reflects on what it means to move through seasons that feel uncertain, destabilizing,...

What if peace doesn’t always come from changing your circumstances… but from changing the way you see and relate to them? In this episode of Inner Sanctuary: The Journey Home , Raquel shares how poetry became a space to sit honestly with grief, uncertainty, emotional intensity, and the hidden ways we resist life itself. Through reflections on death, life, motherhood, creative expression, and the e...

In this episode of Inner Sanctuary: The Journey Home , Raquel explores the hidden layers beneath the identity of being a “hard worker.”  This is not a conversation about avoiding work. It’s an exploration of what happens when striving becomes identity, when depletion becomes proof of being deserving and questioning the stories about value, success, sacrifice, and receiving. Through personal storyt...

In this first episode, I share a moment where so much began to shift. I thought I was doing everything “right,” yet I felt deeply unfulfilled. The question,  How can I be so unfulfilled?   led me on a journey of questioning the foundations I had been living within, from food and health to education, work, money, birth, parenting and more. This episode explores the shift from living on autopilot to...