It Ends With You

In this solo episode, I share something I’ve noticed with almost every guest on this podcast. When I ask about their childhood, they begin with the good: the vacations, the sacrifices, the love. And then, slowly, the other stories come out. The things that happened in between. I talk about why we protect the stories we tell about our childhood, what a quiet moment in one of my Healing Roots Circle...

Rocky Lind grew up in what looked like a normal, loving home: a former Marine dad, two older sisters, and sports, his safe place to quietly hide. It took a breaking point in his marriage, a spirituality workshop he never expected to attend, and years of inner work to see what had been quietly shaping him. In this conversation, Rocky names the pattern he inherited, hiding and fawning to keep the pe...

Yasmine Beydoun returns for part two of her story. This time as a mother navigating her son's years-long battle with juvenile arthritis, from a wheelchair in Lisbon to a doctor who dismissed her instincts. Yasmine shares how she learned to trust her own inner knowing over medical authority and community pressure, how she held boundaries even her own mother struggled with, and how creating saf...

Yasmine Beydoun grew up Lebanese, "of the world" ,  five schools in five years, a childhood shaped by displacement, war, and a body that learned to brace before it learned to rest. To survive it, she built what she calls "the Charmer": funny, agreeable, always ready to say yes. It followed her into corporate life, into addiction, into motherhood , until a stillbirth and her son...

At fourteen, Brian survived a brain tumor, emergency surgery, and a fifty-fifty chance of waking up. What he carried afterward wasn't just gratitude, it was a shield: an unspoken decision to never add more pain to a family already breaking under what had happened. In this episode, Brian shares how that shield quietly became a lifelong pattern of defensiveness and "type A-ness," one...

Have you ever found yourself caught in the middle of someone else's conflict? Or perhaps you've reached out to someone else before having the difficult conversation you knew you needed to have? In this short solo episode, I explore the often-overlooked family dynamic of triangulation. What it is, why so many of us unconsciously fall into it, and how it quietly keeps relationships stuck....

Hazel Swayne grew up in a home filled with love, and unpredictability. As a child, she learned to protect others, keep the peace, and make sure everyone around her was okay. Those patterns followed her into adulthood, shaping how she parented, led, and showed up in relationships. In this conversation, Hazel shares how learning to set healthier boundaries has transformed her parenting and the legac...

We often believe healing happens the moment we understand our past. But awareness is only the beginning.   In this conversation, I sit down with Genoveva La Placa to explore what happens after we recognize the patterns we've inherited. Together we discuss how true transformation comes through practice, presence, and the courage to respond differently, even when old patterns still feel familia...

As a child, Sophie learned that being responsible, high-achieving, and easy was the safest way to earn love and attention. Beneath her success lived inherited beliefs about worth, security, independence, and what it meant to be a woman. In this conversation, Sophie shares how the loss of her father, the influence of two very different female role models, and her struggle to decide whether to have...

In this episode, I sit down with physician, executive coach, and lifelong learner Aparna Ananth to explore what happens when the identities we've built our lives around begin to fall away. From a childhood marked by emotional self-reliance to a successful career in medicine and leadership, Aparna shares how a fiercely independent protector helped her survive, achieve, and thrive. But when a s...

What if healing isn’t becoming someone new… but remembering who you’ve always been? Chelsea grew up feeling loved and supported. And yet, somewhere along the way, she learned to stay small, avoid conflict, and earn belonging through being “good.” In this episode, Chelsea shares how motherhood, illness, and deep self-reflection helped her recognize inherited patterns and begin choosing herself diff...

As a child, Leslie sensed something wasn’t right long before she had words for it. After being taken from her home, growing up across countries, navigating instability, and later experiencing abuse, she developed one powerful strategy to survive: control. In this deeply honest conversation, Leslie shares how that protector showed up throughout her life through perfectionism, bulimia, achievement,...

It Ends With You is a space for courageous conversations about interrupting inherited patterns, reclaiming your truth, and freeing future generations. Hosted by Patricia Díaz-Kismarton, this podcast features real, everyday people sharing honest stories of the subtle family dynamics that often go unnamed.  At the end of each episode, Patricia offers reflections and insights drawn from her work with...

In this episode of It Ends With You , we explore the first phase of cycle-breaking: Awakening; the moment you begin to notice that something doesn’t feel right anymore, even if you can’t fully explain why. Melanie shares her deeply personal journey of growing up with loss, loneliness, and the impact it had on how she showed up in relationships. From intense jealousy and fear of abandonment to over...